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Jr. H. Nearing
A professor of English with a talent for mathematical absurdity, he created witty science-fiction stories filled with eccentric academics, strange experiments, and playful intellectual puzzles. He is best known for the Professor Cleanth Penn Ransom series and the collection The Sinister Researches of C. P. Ransom.
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The neurotic rose
by Jr. H. Nearing
About the author
Homer C. Nearing Jr. (1915–2004) was an American professor and author who often published fiction under the name H. Nearing Jr. His humorous stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction during the 1950s, including the Professor Cleanth Penn Ransom series, which followed the bizarre adventures of a mathematics professor at the fictional Uh-Uh University.
Nearing studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a doctorate in English in 1944 with a dissertation on historical English poetry. He later taught English at Pennsylvania Military College, now Widener University, and wrote scholarly work on English poetry and British traditions surrounding Julius Caesar. His fiction was collected in The Sinister Researches of C. P. Ransom, published in 1954.