Sewell Peaslee Wright

Born in Butler, Pennsylvania, on August 7, 1897, Sewell Peaslee Wright was an American writer, journalist, advertising writer, radio operator, and editor. Reference sources on speculative fiction also note that he served in World War I and published under names including S. P. Wright.

He began publishing genre work in the 1920s and became known for a run of interplanetary adventure stories centered on Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service. Stories such as The Forgotten Planet, The Dark Side of Antri, The Ghost World, The Terror from the Depths, and The Death-Traps of FX-31 helped make him a familiar name in early pulp science fiction.

Though he later fell quiet as a science fiction writer, his work continued to circulate through reprints and digital editions, and modern collections have gathered the John Hanson tales for new readers. He died in March 1970.