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William Campbell Gault

Lifespan
1910 – 1995
Nationality
American
Active
1951 – 1956
Works held
6

William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was a hugely prolific pulp and paperback writer, best known for crime fiction, his first novel Don’t Cry for Me won the 1953 Edgar for best first mystery, and for a long line of well-loved sports novels for young readers. Among his thousands of pulp sales were science-fiction and fantasy stories, part of the enormous magazine output of a consummate working writer.

The works

  1. 1956
    Cover of Title fight Title fight
  2. 1954
    Cover of The woman obsession The woman obsession
  3. 1953
    Cover of The Huddlers The Huddlers Cover of The Mighty Dead The Mighty Dead
  4. 1951
    Cover of I'll See You in My Dreams I'll See You in My Dreams Cover of Made to Measure Made to Measure

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFArtificial IntelligenceSpace OperaDystopiaFirst ContactPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonEvelyn E. SmithFrederik PohlJerry SohlJim HarmonJoseph SamachsonKeith LaumerRandall Garrett

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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