Robert W. Krepps

Robert Wilson Krepps was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 11, 1919, and died in Pinellas, Florida, on January 24, 1980. He began publishing genre fiction in the 1940s, with stories appearing in magazines including Fantastic Adventures and Imagination.

Krepps wrote science fiction and fantasy primarily as Geoff St. Reynard, producing imaginative adventures such as Mistress of the Djinn, The Buttoned Sky, The Giants from Outer Space, and the Usurpers stories. Under his own name, he wrote adventure fiction for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, along with western and historical novels including The Courts of the Lion and El Cid.

His wide-ranging career also included collaborations and novelizations of films, reflecting the energetic, genre-spanning style that made his work a natural fit for the pulp and paperback markets of his era.