author
Irwin Lewis
A mid-20th-century writer who moved between television drama and paperback science fiction, he is best remembered for brisk, high-concept stories with New York at the center. His work also survives in early TV credits and in a Project Gutenberg edition that has helped keep his fiction in circulation.
1 Audiobook
"To Invade New York...."
by Irwin Lewis
About the author
Irwin Lewis was an American writer born in Somers, Westchester County, New York, on November 17, 1916, and he died on October 12, 1996. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with two notable novels, The Day They Invaded New York (1964) and The Day New York Trembled (1967), both tied to the kind of fast-moving speculative fiction that flourished in paperback form.
He also worked in early television. IMDb lists writing credits for series including Shadow of the Cloak, Tales of Tomorrow, Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Rocky King, Detective, showing that his career reached beyond novels into live and filmed TV during the early 1950s.
Today, Lewis is a fairly obscure figure, but some of his work remains accessible. Project Gutenberg lists To Invade New York...., which helps preserve at least one of his stories for modern readers who are curious about forgotten science-fiction writers from the postwar era.