Earl Goodale

Earl Goodale is a little-documented science-fiction author whose work is preserved today mainly through library and public-domain records. Reliable sources available here confirm Success Story as the key work associated with the name, and that story has been made available through Project Gutenberg.

The surviving record suggests a writer with a very small published bibliography, or at least one that is not well captured by major reference sites now indexed online. Because so little confirmed personal information is readily available, it is safer to focus on the work itself than to speculate about Goodale's life, career, or background.

For readers, that scarcity can be part of the appeal: Success Story arrives almost like a message from the pulp and magazine era, carrying the imagination of mid-20th-century science fiction while leaving its author intriguingly in shadow.