Paul W. Fairman

Paul W. Fairman was an American author and editor born in Missouri in 1909. He published work across several genres and also wrote under a number of pseudonyms, building a reputation as a versatile, dependable pulp-era storyteller.

Science fiction readers especially remember him for stories such as "No Teeth for the Tiger" and for his editorial work. He was the founding editor of If in 1952, and later edited both Amazing Stories and Fantastic, giving him a visible role in mid-century magazine science fiction.

Fairman died in 1977. Alongside his own fiction, he is also associated with film and television adaptations, including work connected with Target Earth, Invasion of the Saucer Men, and The Twilight Zone, which helped keep his name in circulation beyond the magazine pages where much of his writing first appeared.