Carroll F. Michener

Carroll F. Michener is the byline printed beneath ‘Six Feet of Willow-Green’ in the April 1923 issue of Weird Tales. An author index identifies the writer as Carroll Kinsey Michener (1885–1970) and records a later contribution to the same magazine, ‘The Earth Girl,’ published under the form Carroll K. Michener. These entries connect the two versions of the name without requiring a guess about why the initial changed.

The April story places its title image inside a tale of obligation, travel and a dangerous threshold. The phrase ‘six feet of willow-green’ belongs to the story’s own language, not to a documented description of Michener’s life. The surviving bibliographic record establishes dates, a full name and two magazine credits; it does not provide a detailed account of his occupation or private circumstances. For that reason, a careful biography of Michener begins with what the printed pages and index preserve: a first byline in 1923, a later story under a slightly different initial, and a career visible through popular periodicals rather than a large archive of personal papers.