Thomas N. Scortia

Emerging from Alton, Illinois, he earned a chemistry degree at Washington University in St. Louis before spending the 1950s and early 1970s in aerospace, where he secured a patent for fuel used on a Jupiter fly-by mission. Writing on the side, he turned to full-time authorship when industry layoffs rose, adopting several pen names such as Scott Nichols and Gerald MacDow. Collaborations with Frank… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources