Richard Magruder

Richard Magruder is a little-documented American author whose known work appeared in the 1950s science-fiction field. And All the Girls Were Nude was originally published in the December 1954 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy by Greenleaf Publishing Company and was later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The story follows an eccentric amateur photographer who invents a device that appears to see through clothing, turning a bizarre scientific premise into a satirical examination of obsession, morality, and the limits of privacy. Some biographical records identify a Richard Allen Magruder, born in Starkville, Mississippi, in 1924, as an author, photographer, journalist, and creative-writing instructor, though the available sources do not definitively establish whether he is the same Richard Magruder who wrote the story.