Lawrence F. Willard

Very little firmly documented biographical information is easy to confirm about this author, which makes him something of a mystery. What can be verified is that he wrote "Rabbits Have Long Ears," a science-fiction short story originally published in Worlds of If in August 1958, and that the story has remained available through Project Gutenberg.

Catalog and bookseller records also link him to Pictorial Connecticut from 1962, suggesting a range that went beyond magazine fiction. Because reliable source material on his life appears to be scarce, it is safest to remember him through the work itself: brisk, imaginative writing from the era when science fiction magazines were full of strange planets, sharp twists, and playful ideas.

If you enjoy rediscovering overlooked writers from the pulp and digest years, he is an interesting example of an author whose surviving stories have outlasted the public record around him.