Dorothy Les Tina
(October 7, 1917 – December 11, 2003)
Dorothy Louise “Tina” Les Tina was a writer and artist for fanzines and prozines in the 1940s and ’50s.
She worked as an assistant editor at Popular Publications in the early 1940s, where she met The Futurians, notably Robert A. W. Lowndes, whose zines she wrote and did illos for, and Frederik Pohl. She collaborated with Bob Tucker on a short story, “The Other,” under the penname Sanford Vaid, published in Super Science Stories in 1944.
She married Pohl in Paris in 1945, while both were serving in the military during World War II; the wartime romance didn’t last, and they divorced in 1947. She served in the U.S. Army until 1967, retiring with the rank of major. In 1952, she married Major Richmond E. Johnson, whom she stayed with till her death.
Les Tina attended Torcon 1 in 1948. In the mid-’40s, she wrote for fanzines, among them Mari Beth Wheeler’s Rosebud.
In the 1950s, she contributed interior art to several issues of Hugo Gernsback's Science Fiction Plus. She then turned to mundane writing projects, including a number of books, mostly works for children.
Born in Chicago, she was the daughter of Frank James and Emmie (Faulkenberg) Les Tina. She grew up in San Diego before moving to New York in her early 20s. Les Tina worked primarily as a teacher, having trained at the San Diego State Teachers College; her education also included the Army Officer’s Candidate School and the New School for Social Research. Les Tina taught elementary level and adult classes in psychical research and creative writing.
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