George H. (George Henry) Smith

Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 27, 1922, George Henry Smith became a remarkably versatile American writer whose career covered both science fiction and other kinds of commercial fiction. He died on May 22, 1996.

Science fiction was a major part of his work. Reference sources credit him with a substantial body of genre writing and note that he published not only as George H. Smith, but also under several other names, including Ross Camra, Jan Hudson, Jerry Jason, Jan Smith, George Hudson Smith, Hal Stryker, and Roy Warren.

That wide range of bylines hints at what makes him interesting today: he was the kind of dependable, imaginative professional author who could write for many corners of the paperback market. He is especially remembered for contributing a large volume of energetic science fiction during the postwar decades, and for a career that shows just how broad and busy the world of mid-20th-century genre publishing could be.