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Melvin Sturgis
A mid-20th-century American writer of science fiction and crime stories, he published under several names and helped fill the pages of classic pulp and digest magazines. His work ranges from short speculative fiction to mystery novels, giving him a small but interesting place in popular genre fiction.
2 Audiobooks
The Gift
by Melvin Sturgis
The Unprotected Species
by Melvin Sturgis
About the author
Melvin Sturgis was an American author associated mainly with mid-century popular fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes that he began publishing genre work with "The Gift" in Imagination in 1951, and that he also wrote as Mel Sturgis.
He worked across more than one branch of commercial fiction. In addition to science-fiction stories, he collaborated twice with Les Cole under the joint pseudonym Colin Sturgis, and books now in the public domain show that he also published longer fiction, including titles such as One Man's Poison and The Unprotected Species.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life are limited in the sources I could confirm. A memorial record identifies a Melvin Shirley Sturgis as living from 1908 to 1991, but because personal details are sparse, it is safest to focus on the published record: a versatile genre writer whose stories appeared during the busy magazine era of American pulp and paperback fiction.