Ralph Williams

Ralph Williams (1914–1959), pen name of Ralph William Slone, lived in Homer, Alaska, worked for the Civil Aeronautics Administration and raised thirteen children, selling most of his fiction to John W. Campbell’s Astounding over a twenty-year correspondence. His novelette ‘Cat and Mouse’, an Alaskan first-contact story, was a 1960 Hugo finalist. He died in a fishing accident with one of his sons during a storm in Kachemak Bay.