Allen Kim Lang

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on July 31, 1928, Allen Kim Lang is an American writer best known for science fiction. Reference sources for speculative fiction list him under several names, including Allen K. Lang, Allen Lang, and Allan Lang.

Lang published short fiction in major science fiction magazines during the 1950s and 1960s. Among the works linked to him in bibliographic and encyclopedia sources are Guest Expert, World in a Bottle, Blind Man's Lantern, and the novel Wild and Outside.

He is not one of the most widely documented writers of his era, but his stories continue to circulate through library catalogs, Project Gutenberg, and science fiction reference sites, which has helped keep his work available to new readers.