author
Leroy Yerxa
1915–1946
A fast-working pulp storyteller from the 1940s, he wrote science fiction, fantasy, and adventure tales for magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures. His career was brief, but his stories and colorful pen names left a clear mark on the era’s magazine fiction.
4 Audiobooks
One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
by Leroy Yerxa
Through the Asteroids—To Hell!
by Leroy Yerxa
Phantom of the Forest
by Leroy Yerxa
Queen of the Flaming Diamond
by Leroy Yerxa
About the author
Born in 1915, Leroy Yerxa was an American pulp writer whose fiction appeared mainly in the Ziff-Davis magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures. Reference sources describe him as part of the Chicago-centered circle of writers who supplied these magazines during the early 1940s, turning out science fiction, fantasy, and other fast-paced popular fiction.
He published under his own name and also used several pseudonyms, including Elroy Arno. Sources also connect him with names such as Richard Casey and Alexander Blade, reflecting the common pulp-magazine practice of using alternate bylines and house names. Family-history material notes that his first wife, Frances Yerxa, also wrote for the same magazines.
Yerxa died in 1946, still young, which helps explain why so little biographical material survives. Even so, his work continues to circulate through reprints and public-domain editions, and he remains of interest to readers who enjoy the lively, imaginative world of classic pulp science fiction and fantasy.