author
Kendell Foster Crossen
1910–1981
A versatile pulp storyteller, he helped create the masked hero the Green Lama and wrote across science fiction, crime, and adventure. He also found lasting success in detective fiction under the pen name M. E. Chaber.
3 Audiobooks
The Ambassadors From Venus
by Kendell Foster Crossen
The gnome's gneiss
by Kendell Foster Crossen
Public enemy
by Kendell Foster Crossen
About the author
Born in Albany, Ohio, on July 25, 1910, Kendell Foster Crossen became a prolific American writer whose work ranged from pulp adventure to science fiction and detective novels. He wrote under several names, including Ken Crossen, Richard Foster, and M. E. Chaber, moving easily between genres and magazines.
He is especially remembered as the creator and writer of stories featuring the Green Lama, a pulp and comic-book hero, and for his Milo March detective and spy novels. In science fiction, he also worked as an editor, helping shape anthologies as well as contributing his own fiction.
Crossen died in Los Angeles on November 29, 1981, but his reputation has endured through the wide variety of stories he left behind. For readers who enjoy classic popular fiction, his career offers a lively mix of mystery, suspense, fantasy, and futuristic adventure.