Pansy E. Black

Pansy Ellen Beach (November 26, 1890 – December 12, 1957), known by the pen name Pansy E. Black, was an American stenographer and writer of science fiction and fantasy.

Personal life Pansy Ellen Beach was born in Charles City, Iowa, in 1890. She was the daughter of Spencer Beach and Lillian E. Briggs Beach and had three older siblings: a sister, Daisy, and brothers, Leo and George. She married Texas legislator William Alexander Black in 1918. They had a son, Robert George Black. She was widowed when her husband died in 1935. the following year, she accepted a Canadian War Service Medal awarded to her son posthumously for his service during World War II.

Black was active in a theosophy society in San Antonio. At a 1933 meeting, she lectured on future technologies, including wireless power and telephones. "We are only on the threshold of the electrical age," she declared. She predicted, "The time will come shortly when no man will have any privacy of any sort".

Writing Black's stories "The Valley of the Great Ray" (1930) and "The Men from the Meteor" (1932) were published by editor Hugo Gernsback in his Science Fiction Series booklets. "Graah, Foiler of Destiny" appeared in the short-lived magazine Golden Fleece Historical Adventure (1938-1939).