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Robert Emmett McDowell
1914–1975
A Louisville writer with one foot in pulp adventure and the other in Kentucky history, he moved easily from science fiction and mystery stories to deeply researched books about the American frontier. His career brought together magazine storytelling, wartime experience, and a lasting fascination with Daniel Boone and early Kentucky.
11 Audiobooks
The Blue Venus
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Black Silence
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Sword of Fire
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Beyond the Yellow Fog
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Citadel of the Green Death
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Red Witch of Mercury
by Robert Emmett McDowell
The Great Green Blight
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Love Among the Robots
by Robert Emmett McDowell
The Happy Castaway
by Robert Emmett McDowell
Moon of Treason
by Robert Emmett McDowell
The Outcasts of Solar III
by Robert Emmett McDowell
About the author
Born in Sentinel, Oklahoma, on April 5, 1914, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Robert Emmett McDowell built an unusually wide-ranging writing career. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marine, and that period helped launch his fiction work under the name Emmett McDowell.
He published stories in pulp magazines including Amazing Stories, Astounding Science Fiction, Planet Stories, and Jungle Stories, and also wrote mystery novels. Alongside that popular fiction, he became known as a Kentucky historian, especially for his research on Daniel Boone and the early frontier.
McDowell remained closely connected to Louisville for most of his life and died there on March 29, 1975. His papers and research collections reflect how seriously he pursued regional history, while his fiction shows the energetic, fast-moving style of a seasoned magazine storyteller.