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Nick B. (Nick Boddie) Williams
1906–1992
Best known for shaping the Los Angeles Times in the mid-20th century, he also wrote science fiction with a newspaperman’s eye for pace and ideas. His fiction career was brief, but it left behind a small, intriguing body of work from the 1950s.
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The atom curtain
by Nick B. (Nick Boddie) Williams
About the author
Born in Onancock, Virginia, in 1906, Nick Boddie Williams studied government at the University of Texas and built a long newspaper career before becoming known to many readers as Nick B. Williams. He worked for several papers and then spent decades at the Los Angeles Times, where he eventually served as editor from 1958 to 1971.
Alongside journalism, he wrote science fiction, publishing stories in magazines and novels including The Atom Curtain. Reference works on the field note that his speculative fiction output was relatively small, but it linked him to the lively American SF scene of the mid-1900s.
Williams died in 1992. Today he stands out as an unusual figure who moved between two very different writing worlds: daily journalism at a major newspaper and imaginative, idea-driven fiction.