Bryce Walton

Born in Blythedale, Missouri, on May 31, 1918, Bryce Walton built a wide-ranging writing career that stretched from the pulp-magazine era into television. Reliable reference sources describe him as an American pulp fiction writer, and note that he also worked under names including Paul Franklin and Kenneth O'Hara.

After serving as a navy correspondent during World War II, he began freelancing in the mid-1940s. His first science-fiction story, The Ultimate World, appeared in Planet Stories in 1945, and he went on to publish widely in genre magazines through the 1940s and 1950s, writing science fiction, mystery, and suspense with equal ease.

Walton also wrote for television, including scripts for Captain Video and His Video Rangers, and his connection to suspense fiction extended to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where he wrote episodes and had stories adapted for the series. He died on February 5, 1988, in Van Nuys, California, leaving behind the kind of career that quietly touches many corners of mid-century popular storytelling.