author
Kendell Foster Crossen
1910–1981
A fast-moving pulp storyteller, he created the Green Lama and later found a wide audience with the Milo March mysteries and spy novels. Writing under several names, he moved easily between crime, adventure, and science fiction.
2 Audiobooks
The Ambassadors From Venus
by Kendell Foster Crossen
The gnome's gneiss
by Kendell Foster Crossen
About the author
Kendell Foster Crossen was an American writer born on July 25, 1910, in Ohio and died in 1981 in Los Angeles. He built a long career in popular fiction, especially in the pulp magazines, and became known for his range as much as his speed.
He is best remembered as the creator of the Green Lama, a pulp and comic-book hero, and for the Milo March detective and spy novels, which he published under the pen name M. E. Chaber. He also wrote science fiction and other genre fiction under several bylines, including Ken Crossen, which helped him reach different audiences across magazines and paperback series.
Crossen's work has lasting appeal for readers who enjoy classic mid-century popular fiction: colorful heroes, brisk plotting, and stories that blend mystery, suspense, and imagination. His career shows how flexible and inventive many pulp-era writers had to be, and why the best of them are still fun to discover.