author
R. W. Major
A little-known mid-century science fiction writer, remembered today for sharp, compact magazine fiction including "Monument." Very little biographical information appears to be publicly documented, which gives the surviving work an added air of mystery.
1 Audiobook
Monument
by R. W. Major
About the author
R. W. Major appears to have been a science fiction writer whose work was published in the magazine Worlds of IF Science Fiction. Public-domain and catalog records connect the name with the short story Monument, and LibriVox also identifies Major as a contributor to Worlds of IF.
Reliable biographical detail beyond the published work is hard to confirm from the sources I found. Because of that, it is safer to describe Major as an obscure magazine-era author whose reputation rests mainly on a small surviving body of science fiction rather than to repeat uncertain personal details.
That scarcity of background information is part of the appeal for modern readers: the stories come forward almost on their own, without much author legend around them, as snapshots of classic pulp-era imagination.