Richard E. Lowe

Richard E. Lowe appears to have been a science-fiction writer whose known published work was brief and concentrated in 1956. Bibliographic records and audiobook listings consistently identify him with three stories from that year: Vacation on Earth, The Ninety-Minute War, and When I Grow Up.

Of those, When I Grow Up has had the longest afterlife. It was later released by Project Gutenberg and has also been cataloged by LibriVox, helping introduce Lowe's fiction to new generations of readers and listeners.

Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources available online. No confirmed birth-and-death dates or fuller personal background were clearly established in the material reviewed, so he is best remembered today through his surviving mid-century magazine fiction rather than through a well-documented public biography.