Desmond Winter Hall

Born in Sydney in 1911, Desmond Winter Hall was an Australian-born writer and editor who built much of his career in the United States. He is best remembered for his connection to early science fiction magazines, including work as an assistant editor on Astounding Stories, and for fiction published under names such as Anthony Gilmore, Ainslee Jenkins, and H. G. Winter.

Hall wrote and collaborated on fast-moving pulp adventures that appeared during the early years of magazine science fiction. Reliable reference sources also credit him with a wider literary career: beyond SF, he contributed fiction and articles to major magazines, and later published I Give You Oscar Wilde in 1965.

Some reference sources disagree about details such as his birth and death dates, but they consistently describe him as an important behind-the-scenes figure in early American pulp publishing as well as a working author in his own right. He died in 1992.