Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

Winston K. Marks was an American science fiction writer born in 1915, also known as Winston Kinney Marks. He published under several names, including Win Marks, and is remembered mainly for a large body of short fiction rather than for novels.

He first broke into magazine science fiction with "Mad Hatter" in Unknown in 1940, followed by "Manic Perverse" in Astounding in 1941. After a long gap, he returned in the 1950s with stories such as The Water Eater, which helped establish him as a dependable and imaginative magazine writer of the postwar era.

Beyond fiction, Marks also worked at KBOY radio station in Medford, Oregon; surviving papers from the early 1960s include editorial radio scripts with handwritten revisions. He died in 1979, and while he is not as famous as some of his contemporaries, his stories remain part of the rich, idea-driven tradition of mid-century American science fiction.