- Author: Frank McConnell Author Record # 24200
- Legal Name: McConnell, Francis DeMay
- Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Birthdate: 20 May 1942
- Deathdate: 17 January 1999
- Language: English
- Webpages: Goodreads, SFE, Wikipedia-DE
- Note: Frank McConnell was a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He wrote a regular column on the media for Commonweal magazine, and his voluminous body of work included four detective novels and a number of academic books.
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- The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination (2009) with Gary Westfahl
- Sturgeon's Law: First Corollary (1986)
- From Astarte to Barbie and Beyond: The Serious History of Dolls (1987)
- Boring Dates: Reflection on the Apocalypse Game (1987)
- Frames in Search of a Genre (1987)
- The Playing Fields of Eden (1989)
- Alimentary, My Dear Watson: Food and Eating in Scientific and Mystery Fiction (1996)
- Introduction (The Kindly Ones) (1996)
- Preface (Sandman: Book of Dreams) (1996)
- You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller (1996)
- "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground (1996)
- Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars (2002)
- The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian (2002)
- It's Only a Paper Moon: Fantasy and the Professors (2003)
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke: A Telephone Conversation (2000) with Arthur C. Clarke (co-interviewers Paul A. Carter and Gary Kern and Daryl F. Mallett and Melissa Mannion and Joseph D. Miller and Eric S. Rabkin and Gary Westfahl)