Robert H. Rohrer

Born Robert H. Rohrer Jr. on January 31, 1946, in Savannah, Georgia, he grew up in the Atlanta area and graduated from Druid Hills High School in 1964. He went on to study English at Emory University, earning his B.A. in 1967, and also worked as a graduate assistant in English at SUNY Buffalo during 1967–68.

Rohrer began publishing science fiction while still very young. His stories appeared in magazines such as Fantastic and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and at least two of them — including "The Man Who Found Proteus" and "Keep Them Happy" — were reprinted in well-known year’s-best or best-from-the-magazine anthologies.

Although his publishing career seems to have been brief, readers of classic magazine science fiction still remember him for that early burst of imaginative work. He is also listed by major library and speculative fiction reference sites as an author with texts preserved online.