Ed Earl Repp

Born in Pittsburgh, Ed Earl Repp was an American writer whose fiction appeared in early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories. Reliable bibliographic and reference sources also identify him as a novelist and screenwriter, with a career that stretched across science fiction, mystery, and western storytelling.

Repp is especially remembered by genre readers for his pulp-era science fiction and for the John Hale scientific-detective stories, while much of his book-length fiction was published in the western field. Later in his career, he also wrote screenplays for a number of western films, showing the same knack for action and plot that marked his magazine work.

The dates attached to his life are not completely consistent across sources: major reference sources such as Wikipedia, ISFDB, the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and IMDb give his birth date as May 22, 1901, while some grave and genealogy records list 1900. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say he lived from the early 20th century until February 14, 1979.