Frank Riley

Writing under the name Frank Riley, Frank Wilbert Ryhlick was an American author and journalist born on June 8, 1915, in Hibbing, Minnesota. He is most closely associated with science fiction, especially his collaboration with Mark Clifton on They'd Rather Be Right, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1955.

His fiction career appears to have been relatively brief, but that one novel gave him a lasting place in mid-century science fiction history. It was later also published under the title The Forever Machine, and he wrote additional short fiction during the 1950s.

Beyond fiction, Riley built a substantial career in journalism and travel writing. Sources describe him as a syndicated travel columnist and an editor for the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine, showing how comfortably he worked in both imaginative storytelling and real-world reporting. He died on April 24, 1996, in Manhattan Beach, California.