author
Laurence Donovan
1885–1948
A fast-moving pulp storyteller from the great magazine era, he is best remembered for his work on Doc Savage adventures under the house name Kenneth Robeson. His fiction carries the snap, danger, and cliffhanger energy that made pulp magazines so hard to put down.
2 Audiobooks
Fire of retribution
by Laurence Donovan
"Moo-oo-oo-oo!"
by Laurence Donovan
About the author
Born in Cincinnati in July 1885, Laurence L. Donovan was an American pulp fiction writer who built his career in the world of popular adventure and detective magazines. Reliable sources agree that he is best known for writing nine Doc Savage novels published between 1935 and 1937 under the shared pseudonym Kenneth Robeson.
Before focusing on fiction, Donovan worked in printing and journalism, experience that helps explain the brisk, newspaper-clean style often associated with pulp storytelling. He also wrote under several other names, a common practice in magazine publishing at the time.
He died on March 11, 1948. Today, he is mainly remembered by pulp readers and Doc Savage fans as one of the writers who helped shape one of the most famous hero series of the era.