D. L. James

D. L. James (1911–1988), Daniel Lewis James, son of a wealthy Kansas City businessman and a Yale classics graduate, published science fiction from ‘The Cosmic Trap’ (Astounding, 1936) and was one of the few early writers to make the jump from F. Orlin Tremaine’s Astounding to John W. Campbell’s more demanding version. His genre career was brief, running to about 1940. (He later wrote for the theatre and film under other names.)