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Fred Sheinbaum

Known mainly for the satirical science-fiction story Filthy Rich, this elusive mid-century writer left behind a sharp, witty look at consumer culture. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.

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Filthy Rich

Filthy Rich

by Fred Sheinbaum

About the author

Fred Sheinbaum is a little-known science-fiction writer best remembered for "Filthy Rich," a story published in Worlds of If Science Fiction in April 1957. The story has remained available through Project Gutenberg and is still listed by major online book catalogs and reading databases.

Reliable biographical details about the author are scarce. The sources I found consistently connect the name Fred Sheinbaum with Filthy Rich, but they do not provide a confirmed life story, bibliography beyond that work, or a verified author profile.

That makes Sheinbaum one of those intriguing pulp-era bylines whose fiction has outlasted the record of the person behind it. For readers, the appeal is simple: even with so little known about the author, the story still offers a clear glimpse of a playful, skeptical imagination at work.