Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books. He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel (The Other World) using the pen name "J. Harvey Bond". Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym "Franklin Hadley". He also wrote scripts for Fred Harman's western comic Red Ryder.[1]

Winterbotham was born in Salina, Kansas, and died in Bay Village, Ohio.[2] While writing, his full-time job was fiction editor for Scripps-Howard NEA news service.[3]

Bibliography

Winterbotham's "Madness on Luna" was the cover story in the April 1939 Amazing Stories

References

  1. ^ "Fred Harman".
  2. ^ "Winterbotham, Russ". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Editor's Report". If (editorial). June 1958. pp. 3–5.