Joseph E. (Joseph Everidge) Kelleam

Joseph Everidge Kelleam was born in Boswell, Oklahoma, on February 11, 1913, and died in Texas on June 15, 1975. He is remembered mainly as an American science fiction writer, though he also published poetry.

His first known story, Rust, appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. Later, he wrote several novels, including Overlords from Space (1956), The Little Men (1960), Hunters of Space (1960), and When the Red King Woke (1966). Reference sources also note a poetry collection, Good-Bye to Babylon (1974).

Kelleam's fiction belongs to the mid-20th-century magazine and paperback era of science fiction, with stories of strange worlds, futuristic danger, and myth-tinged adventure. A clear portrait image was not readily available from the sources I could verify, so none is included here.