WILCOX, Don

   Working name of US writer Cleo Eldon Knox (1905-), who taught creative writing at Northwestern University; most of his work, sometimes as Cleo Eldon, Miles Shelton or Max Overton, was for Ray PALMER's AMAZING STORIESand Fantastic Adventures, where he published his first story, "The Pit of Death", in 1939. A good GENERATION-STARSHIP tale, "The Voyage that Lasted600 Years" (1940), soon followed. DW used the house name Alexander BLADE at least once, and also published a novelette, "Confessions of a Mechanical Man" (1947), as Buzz-Bolt Atomcracker. The Ebbtide Jonesstories (1939-42; the 1st in AMZ, the rest in Fantastic Adventures) were published as by Miles Shelton. DW's "The Whispering Gorilla" (1940) was cobbled together with "The Return of the Whispering Gorilla" (1943) by his ZIFF-DAVIS stablemate David Vern, writing as David V. REED, to form TheWhispering Gorilla (fixup 1950 UK), published as by David V. Reed.

   JC/PN