SCHUTZ, J(oseph) W(illard)

(1912-1984)

   US writer, mostly of short stories, and diplomat who graduated in science and later from the US Counter-Insurgency School. He was in his 50s when - to give himself something to do while stationed in West Africa - he began writing sf, with "Maiden Voyage" for FSF in 1965.His two adventure-sf novels are People of the Rings (1975 UK) and The Moon Microbe (1976 UK). He wrote thrillers as Jerry Scholl.

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