Wallace West

Born in Kentucky in 1900, Wallace West was an American science fiction writer whose career began with "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales in 1927. He soon became a regular presence in genre magazines, publishing stories across the pulp era and developing a reputation for energetic, idea-driven fiction.

Most of his early work was short fiction, though he also wrote novels, many of them published after World War II and adapted from earlier stories. His books include The Bird of Time, Lords of Atlantis, The Time-Lockers, and The Everlasting Exiles.

Reference works also note that West worked outside fiction as a lawyer and public-relations man. He died in 1980, but his stories still offer a vivid window into the adventurous, imaginative world of mid-century science fiction magazines.