cordwainer
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Lavie: No science fiction writer was ever as weird, as brilliant and as unjustly neglected, perhaps, as Cordwainer Smith.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021
The two men get carried away in one of their semi-regular conversations about obscure science fiction — Cordwainer Smith, anyone? — until a publicist politely breaks up the geek-out session.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018
Linebarger, who wrote under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2018
Cordwainer was the old name for "shoemaker," and is still kept in the names of shoemakers' guilds and societies.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
The locks of a Duchess, in this way, may come to cover the scalp of a Cordwainer: her blond German Frankism his black Gaelic poll, if it be bald.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
