Ray C. Noll

Ray C. Noll is known as an American speculative fiction writer whose short novel Flight Perilous! was published in 1955. Catalog listings from Project Gutenberg and LibriVox continue to keep that earlier work in circulation for modern readers.

Information published with his later books identifies Ray C. Noll III as born in Philadelphia in 1953, raised in Devon, Pennsylvania, and widely traveled from an early age. Those same biographical notes say that after traveling in Africa he worked as a graphic designer in the Washington, D.C., area and developed a strong interest in art education.

A conference speaker biography adds that he studied art at Penn State, earned an M.Ed. in Art from Millersville University, and took postgraduate seminars and field classes in traditional West African art at the University of Ghana and the University of Ife in Nigeria. That background fits well with Initiation Rites: A West African Odyssey, a memoir drawing on his experiences in Ghana and Nigeria.