author
Richard Magruder
A little-known writer from the pulp science-fiction era, best remembered for a single surviving story that still catches readers with its lurid title and brisk mid-century style.
1 Audiobook
And All the Girls Were Nude
by Richard Magruder
About the author
Richard Magruder appears to have been an obscure science-fiction author whose best-known work is And All the Girls Were Nude, a short story preserved by Project Gutenberg and LibriVox. Reliable public information about his life is very limited, which is often the case with writers who published only occasionally in the magazine era.
Because so little biographical material is confirmed, the safest picture is a simple one: Magruder is remembered today less for a documented personal history than for the survival of that story and its continued circulation among readers of vintage speculative fiction. His name still turns up in classic-SF catalogs and audiobook collections, giving modern listeners a small glimpse of the period's playful, sensational side.