Ralph Milne Farley

Born Roger Sherman Hoar in 1887, he wrote fiction as Ralph Milne Farley while also building a career in law and public service. He was educated at Harvard and became known both as an attorney and as a member of the Massachusetts legislature.

As Ralph Milne Farley, he published science fiction and fantasy in the pulp-magazine era, and he is especially remembered for the Radio Man adventures, a popular early series of planetary romances. His work mixed action, invention, and exploration in a style that fit the adventurous spirit of early twentieth-century speculative fiction.

He died in 1963. Today he is mainly remembered by genre readers for his place in the history of classic pulp science fiction and for the energetic imagination of his serial adventures.