Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer

Born in Chicago in 1889 to Czech immigrant parents, Miles J. Breuer grew up in Nebraska and went on to train as a physician. He served in the U.S. Medical Corps during World War I and spent much of his professional life practicing medicine in Nebraska.

Alongside that medical career, he became one of the early regular contributors to pulp science fiction magazines. His first science-fiction story, The Man with the Strange Head, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1927, and he went on to publish inventive work including The Gostak and the Doshes and stories written with fellow author Jack Williamson.

Breuer is remembered as part of the first generation of magazine science-fiction writers in the United States. His background in medicine, his Czech-American roots, and his enthusiasm for speculative ideas gave his fiction a distinctive place in the genre's early years.