Theodore Tinsley

October 27, 1894 (age 84)

Tinsley wrote 27 stories featuring The Shadow for "The Shadow Magazine" pulp magazine. He also created Carrie Cashin, one of the first female detectives in pulp fiction, who appeared in Street & Smith"s Crimebuster pulp magazine. An early series he wrote is the "Amusement Incorporated./Scarlet Ace" series that ran over 4 different pulp magazines in the 1930s. He was a veteran of the battle of Meuse-Argonne. During World World War II Tinsley moved to Washington, District of Columbia where he worked in the Writer"s Division of the Office of War Information. After the war"s end, he worked in public relations for the Veterans Administration until 1960, when he retired to Auburn, Alabama, where he would live the rest of his life.

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Career

Tinsley wrote 27 stories featuring The Shadow for "The Shadow Magazine" pulp magazine. He also created Carrie Cashin, one of the first female detectives in pulp fiction, who appeared in Street & Smith"s Crimebuster pulp magazine. An early series he wrote is the "Amusement Incorporated./Scarlet Ace" series that ran over 4 different pulp magazines in the 1930s.

He was a veteran of the battle of Meuse-Argonne.

During World World War II Tinsley moved to Washington, District of Columbia where he worked in the Writer"s Division of the Office of War Information. After the war"s end, he worked in public relations for the Veterans Administration until 1960, when he retired to Auburn, Alabama, where he would live the rest of his life.

Membership

Tinsley graduated from City College of New York in 1916, and worked as a school teacher and insurance agent before fighting in World War I as a member of an anti-aircraft machine gun battery.

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