Leo P. Kelley

Leo P. Kelley was an American author whose career stretched across several corners of genre fiction. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, he was born in 1928, worked for a time as an advertising copywriter, and began publishing science fiction with "Dreamtown, U.S.A." in If magazine in February 1955.

His early reputation was tied to science fiction, but from around 1980 he focused mainly on Westerns. Bibliography sources credit him with dozens of books, including science-fiction titles such as Mythmaster and Time, along with many Western novels and entries in the Cimarron series.

Kelley died in 2002. Clear portrait images were not readily confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no author photo is included here.