Wellman became fascinated with Southern folklore during the 1920s and 30s and developed a close friendship with Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Bloch. In particular, his work was regularly published in the pages of Weird Tales, where his name appeared beside such pioneers of science fiction as Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Wellman began writing science fiction, fantasy, and detective stories for pulp magazines in the late 1920s and was a prolific contributor to such magazines until the 1950s. In 1930, he married a music student named Frances Obrist, who would be his lifelong partner and companion. Manly Wade Wellman, circa late 1940s-early 1960s. After earning degrees from what is now Wichita State University and from Columbia University, Wellman began his writing career in the late 1920s as a newspaper reporter in Kansas. Wellman was born in West Africa, where his father was serving as a medical doctor, but spent most of his boyhood in the United States. An award-winning author and long-time resident of North Carolina, Wellman wrote a number of books and stories set in that state’s mountains, from history, to fantasy, to young adult fiction. Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) is one of the most prolific yet, ironically, little-known writers of Southern Appalachia. “I am currently writing a detailed study of Manly Wellman’s ‘Silver John’ stories,” he says, “which stand out among the few works of fantasy fiction penned about the Appalachian region.” Roach served twelve years at Young Harris College in the north Georgia mountains, where he was Professor of Communication Studies and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Prior to joining the ETSU faculty in 2013, Dr.
A native of North Carolina, he is from a family with deep roots in the mountains and music of Virginia and North Carolina. Roach is Chair and Professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University.
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