Dave Dryfoos

Dave Dryfoos (1915–2003) was an American science-fiction writer born in San Francisco, California. He began publishing in 1950 with “Lest Ye Be Judged…” in Fantastic Adventures and went on to write more than twenty stories over the next several years.

His fiction appeared in magazines such as Galaxy, If, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Notable stories include “Bridge Crossing,” “Tree, Spare That Woodman,” “Uniform of a Man,” “Journey Work,” and “Seller of the Sky.”

Dryfoos’s active writing career was brief, ending in the mid-1950s, but many of his stories have since been preserved through Project Gutenberg and collected in The Ninth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack. He died on May 4, 2003.