Rog Phillips

Born Roger Phillip Graham in Spokane, Washington, he was an American science fiction writer best known under the pen name Rog Phillips. He published widely in the 1940s and 1950s, and his work appeared most often in digest-era science fiction magazines, especially Amazing Stories.

Phillips was known above all for short fiction and for being remarkably prolific. He also wrote under other names, including Craig Browning, and became a familiar presence to magazine readers who enjoyed energetic adventures, offbeat ideas, and the bustling style of classic pulp science fiction.

Reference works on the genre remember him as a regular and important contributor to mid-century magazine science fiction. Some sources list his death as March 2, 1966, even though dates are sometimes summarized elsewhere as 1909–1965; to stay accurate, it is safest to say he lived from 1909 into the mid-1960s.