author
b. 1934
A mid-20th-century science-fiction writer, this Los Angeles-born author is remembered for sharp, compact stories like The Smiler and Texas Week. He also published under the names Bert Ahearne, Albert Hernhunter, and Al Hernhuter.
Born on March 24, 1934, in Los Angeles, Albert Hernhuter wrote short science fiction and is chiefly known today through bibliographic records and digital reprints of his work. Reliable catalog and genre-reference sources consistently connect him with a small body of short fiction rather than a long list of novels.
His best-known stories include The Smiler and Texas Week, both of which have remained accessible through projects such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox. Reference sources also note several alternate bylines, including Bert Ahearne, Albert Hernhunter, and Al Hernhuter.
Publicly available sources are fairly sparse, so there is not much widely confirmed biographical detail beyond his birth date, birthplace, genre, and published work. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the pages available during this search.