Otis Adelbert Kline

Born in Chicago on July 1, 1891, he became known during the pulp-magazine years as a writer of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction. Much of his fiction first appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales and Argosy, and he is still remembered for planetary romances including The Planet of Peril, Maza of the Moon, and his Mars novels.

Before and alongside his fiction work, he was active in music and later worked as a literary agent, representing other writers as well as building his own career. Reference sources describe him as one of the notable pulp-era authors who moved easily across genres, from exotic adventure to interplanetary romance.

He died on October 24, 1946, in Branford, Connecticut. Though he is sometimes mentioned in connection with the era's bigger commercial names, his books have kept a loyal readership of their own thanks to their brisk pace, imaginative settings, and classic sense of wonder.