H. A. Hartzell

Very little biographical information about H. A. Hartzell appears to be publicly documented. What can be confirmed is that Hartzell wrote "Death and Taxes," a humorous speculative-fiction story published in Worlds of IF Science Fiction in May 1962.

That story has had an unusually long afterlife for such a little-known author. It is listed in speculative-fiction bibliographies, preserved in magazine archives, and is also available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep Hartzell's name in circulation for later readers.

Some secondary sources even describe "Death and Taxes" as Hartzell's only known published work. Since reliable biographical details are scarce, the picture that remains is of a writer remembered less through personal history than through one memorable magazine story that never quite disappeared.