Walt Richmond

Walter Forbes Richmond was an American science fiction writer and research scientist, born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 6, 1922, and later based in Florida. Reference works on speculative fiction describe his fiction as work he created in collaboration with his wife, Leigh Richmond.

Together, the Richmonds wrote a run of science fiction novels and stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Their books include Shock Wave, The Lost Millennium, Phoenix Ship, Gallagher's Glacier, Challenge the Hellmaker—originally published as Where I Wasn't Going—and The Probability Corner. Their stories are often remembered for mixing serious scientific imagination with wit and satire.

Richmond died in Merritt Island, Florida, on April 14, 1977. Some later revised editions of the couple's work appeared after his death, but standard reference sources note that these later revisions were carried out by Leigh Richmond.