author
b. 1926
A prolific American storyteller, he wrote mysteries, gothics, westerns, and science fiction, along with more than a hundred short stories for magazines. His work moved easily between popular genres, always with a strong feel for suspense and plot.
Born on January 31, 1926, Morris Hershman was an American author whose career stretched across several kinds of popular fiction. Reliable library and reference sources describe him as a writer of mystery, gothic, and western novels, and as a contributor of over one hundred short stories to periodicals.
He also wrote science fiction, beginning with "The Happy Traitor," published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1953. Archive records note that he attended New York University, and that he wrote both under his own name and under several pseudonyms.
Hershman's papers and manuscripts were preserved in research collections, a sign of how much work he produced and how widely he published. He died in August 2016, leaving behind a body of writing that reflects the energy and range of mid-20th-century American genre fiction.