Louis Charbonneau

Born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 20, 1924, Louis Henry Charbonneau was an American author and journalist who wrote in several genres, including science fiction, detective fiction, and westerns. Reference sources also note that he studied at the University of Detroit, served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, and later worked for the Los Angeles Times.

Charbonneau published a long list of novels and was especially remembered in science fiction for books such as No Place on Earth, Corpus Earthling, and Psychedelic-40. He also wrote westerns under the pseudonym Carter Travis Young, showing the same ease with adventure and suspense in a very different setting.

His writing life reached beyond books. He is also credited as a writer connected with The Outer Limits, and library and genre-reference sources describe a career that included radio plays as well as fiction. He died in Lomita, California, on May 11, 2017, at the age of 93.