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S. Robert Tralins was an American author of science and pulp fiction. He reportedly wrote over 250 books.[1]
Robert Tralins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 April 1926 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Died | 20 May 2010 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Years active | 1960s–2010 |
Life
Tralins attended Eastern College in Baltimore, later merged with the University of Baltimore.[2] He was a Marine Corps reservist in the mid-1940s.[2]
Works
Tralins was evidently interested in fetish and related topics. His The Sexual Fetish describes agalmatophilia and frottage.[3]
Kelso notes that Black Stud (1962), along with similar texts of the period that she traces to Mandingo (1959), "can perniciously reinforce hostile constructions of blacks", as they depict Black people in a dehumanizing and hypersexualized manner.[4]
In 1963, Tralins' Pleasure Was My Business—a ghost-written account of the life and times of Rose Miller ("Madame Sherry"), a madam in Miami[5]—was declared obscene by a Florida court.[6] The finding was later overturned by the Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion.[7]
In 1964, Tralins and a neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Michael M. Gilbert, taught ten-lesson memory courses.[8]
Tralins was a writer for Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.[9]
References
- ^ Meacham, Andrew (May 25, 2010). "Robert Tralins wrote banned and bordello books, as well as stories that inspired 'Beyond Belief'". Tampa Bay Times – via Wayback Machine.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Tuck, Donald H., ed. (1978). "Tralins, (S.) Robert". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Vol. 2. Chicago: Advent:Publishers. p. 424.
- ^ Love, Brenda (2002). The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices. London: Abacus. pp. 7, 119. ISBN 0-349-11535-4. OCLC 59462960.
- ^ Kelso, Sylvia (1997). ""Across Never": Postmodern Theory and Narrative Praxis in Samuel R. Delany's Neveryon Cycle". Science Fiction Studies. 24 (2): 289–301 at 296–297. ISSN 0091-7729.
- ^ Freedman, Warren (1965). Society on Trial: Current Court Decisions and Social Change. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. p. 148. OCLC 974108628.
- ^ Tralins v. Gerstein, 151 So.2d 19 (1963) (Florida District Court of Appeal).
- ^ Tralins v. Gerstein, 378 U.S. 576 (1964).
- ^ Wardlow, Jean (November 15, 1964). "Remember Madame Sherry's Ghost? You probably do, but for the wrong reason, says S. Robert Tralins, author turned memory-teacher". The Miami Herald. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
- ^ "S. Robert Tralins". Baltimore Sun. May 23, 2010.
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External links
- Official site via Internet Archive
- Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction