author
Walt Richmond
1922–1977
A science fiction writer and research scientist, he worked in close collaboration with his wife, Leigh Richmond, on stories and novels that mixed speculative ideas with a lively sense of adventure. Their work found a home in the science-fiction magazines and paperback originals of the 1960s and 1970s.
2 Audiobooks
Where I Wasn't Going
by Walt Richmond, Leigh Richmond
Poppa Needs Shorts
by Walt Richmond, Leigh Richmond
About the author
Walter Forbes Richmond was born on December 6, 1922, in Memphis, Tennessee, and died on April 14, 1977, in Merritt Island, Florida. Reliable reference sources describe him as an American science fiction author and research scientist.
His fiction was written exclusively with his wife, Leigh Richmond, making them a true writing partnership. Together they published novels such as The Lost Millennium, Shock Wave, and Gallagher's Glacier, along with shorter fiction that appeared in leading science-fiction magazines of the period.
That mix of scientific curiosity and imaginative storytelling gives his work a distinctive place in mid-20th-century SF. Even though Leigh Richmond later revised some of their shared work after his death, Walt Richmond remains closely associated with the duo's collaborative voice and ideas.