H. P. S. Greene

Henry Paul Stevens Greene wrote under the name H. P. S. Greene and published aviation fiction from the late 1920s into the early 1940s in magazines including Wings, Air Stories, Sky Fighters, Flying Aces, and Aces. His stories often centered on World War I flyers and soldiers, and surviving material suggests they were shaped at least in part by his own experiences.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 28, 1892, Greene attended Methuen High School and later Amherst College. He left Amherst in 1916 to join an ambulance unit in the French army during World War I, and later accounts connect him with wartime aviation service as well. In 1919, he received a Diploma of Honor from the Aerial League of America for his service in the war.

Later in life, Greene also wrote adventure stories set in Mexico and the American West while living for periods in veterans' hospitals in Tucson and Los Angeles. He died in 1947. Because so little conventional biographical material survives, much of what is known about him comes from personal papers and manuscripts reportedly found in a cardboard suitcase he left behind at the National Press Club.