Lee B. Holum

Born in 1931 and remembered in an obituary published after his death in 2019, he studied at Whitworth University in Spokane and later earned a master's degree in chemistry from New Mexico Highlands University. He worked first at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and later became a programmer with Social Security, eventually retiring from that career.

Retirement gave him more time to write. According to his obituary, he wrote 14 science-fiction novels, with a particular interest in time travel. One of his better-documented later books is Time Line Warriors (2010), a novel about parallel worlds and adventure at sea.

His name also appears much earlier in science-fiction history through The 3rd Party, a short work that Project Gutenberg identifies as a mid-20th-century science-fiction novel, and other listings connect it with a 1955 issue of Worlds of IF Science Fiction. Taken together, the record suggests a writer who kept his interest in speculative fiction alive across decades.