Edward E. Smith

2 May 1890 – 31 August 1965

100 works on record

Biography

Edward Smith was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the son of staunch Presbyterians of British ancestry. The following winter, his family moved to Spokane, Washington, and, in 1902, to Seneaquoteen, Idaho, to farm. He received two degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1914. He married in 1915. One evening, while he and his wife were visiting friends, a discussion about space travel led to Smith agreeing to co-author a novel with one of the friends, although after getting about a third of the way through, they abandoned it. Smith went on to receive a Master's degree in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1917 and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 1918. In 1919, he became chief chemist for F. W. Stock & Sons of Hillsdale, Michigan. That same year he resumed writing his first novel, The Skylark of Space, which he finished in 1920, although multiple submissions failed to get it published until 1928. He continued to write and publish stories through the 1930s. In 1936 he took a job as a food technologist at the Dawn Doughnut Company of Jackson, Michigan, while continuing to write and sell fiction. During World War II, he worked for the U.S. Army, and after the war he took a job with the J. W. Allen Company, which he held until his professional retirement in 1957. After his retirement he and his wife moved to Clearwater, Florida in the winters and Seaside, Oregon in the summer. He continued to write until his death in 1965.

Works

The '411' information guide book about how you can cut and polish gems into valuable jewels

2005

Memories of Geode State Park, Iowa's outdoor gem

1997

Children Of The Lens (Lensman Series, No 6)

1987

Gray Lensman

1987

Skylark Of Valeron

1986

The Omicron Invasion

1984

Master Of The Vortex

1983

Spacehounds Of Ipc

1983

Subspace Explorers

1983

Getaway World

1983

Triplanetary

1982

Children Of The Lens

1982

Skylark Duquesne

1980

The Imperial Stars

Imperial Stars (Panther Books) (Family d'Alembert, #1)

Stranglers' Moon

Les Enfants du joyau

Getaway World (Family d'Alembert Series #4)

Imperial Stars (Family D'Alembert, Bk. 1)

Appointment at Bloodstar (Family d'Alembert #5)

Galactic patrol

Eclipsing Binaries

The Clockwork Traitor

Imperial stars

Gray Lensman

Purity Plot

Amazing Stories May, 1959 Piper, Ellison and Doc Smith (Volume 33, No. 5)

Getaway World

Appointment at Bloodstar

Subspace explorers

... Roman des Skylark-Zyklus

Die Abenteuer der Skylark

... Roman des Skylark-Zyklus

Land use, open space, and the government process

Account Of A Journey Through Northeastern Texas Undertaken In 1849 For The Purposes Of Emigration Embodied In A Report To Which Are Appended Letters And Verbal Communications From Eminent Individuals Lists Of Temperature Of Prices Of Land