Frederic Brown

Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.
* He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 29, 1906.
* He began to sell mystery short stories to American magazines in 1936.
* His first science fiction story, "Not Yet the End", was published in the Winter 1941 issue of Captain Future magazine.
* His science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) is a parody of pulp sci-fi story conventions.
* Martians, Go Home (1955) is both a broad farce and a satire on human frailties as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy.
* He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for his novel The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947).
* He died in Tucson, Arizona, on March 11, 1972.
* He is considered one of the masters of the short story form.