Robert Moore Williams

Born in Farmington, Missouri, Robert Moore Williams was an American writer best known for science fiction. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri and began publishing fiction in the late 1930s, with his first known story, "Zero as a Limit," appearing in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1937 under the name Robert Moore.

Williams became one of the notably productive writers of the pulp and paperback era. He published under his own name and several pseudonyms, including John S. Browning, H. H. Harmon, Russell Storm, and E. K. Jarvis. Across the decades, he wrote a large body of short fiction and novels, often returning to adventure-driven plots, alien settings, and colorful speculative concepts.

His career lasted for decades, and his fiction helped bridge the classic pulp-magazine world and the later paperback science fiction market. Readers who enjoy energetic, old-school storytelling will find in his work a vivid sample of mid-20th-century genre fiction.