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Raymond Alfred Palmer (August 1, 1910 – August 15, 1977) was an American author and magazine editor. Influential in the first wave of science fiction fandom, his first fiction stories were published in 1935.
Jul 28, 2016 · Raymond A. Palmer was sixteen years old when he came across a newsstand in July of 1926. It was there that he discovered the first issue of Amazing Stories magazine, edited by Hugo Gernsback. Palmer’s biographer, Fred Nadis, noted that he became an instant convert to science fiction.
Raymond Arthur Palmer, also known as Raymond Alfred Palmer, and Ray Palmer. He was the influential editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 through 1949, when he left publisher Ziff-Davis to publish and edit Fate Magazine, and eventually many other magazines and books through his own publishing houses, including Amherst Press and Palmer Publications.
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Raymond (Ray) A. Palmer, MLA’s former executive director, passed away unexpectedly in November 2011. In 2012, the MLA Oral History Committee undertook an effort to compile information highlighting Ray’s contributions to MLA and the profession, as well as anecdotal information about his life.
Raymond A.Palmer (1910–1977) During the 1950s editor and author Raymond A. Palmer was responsible for numerous stories related to paranormal phenomena and was a leading proponent of the hollow-Earth theory.
Raymond A. Palmer. (August 1, 1910 – August 15, 1977) Ray Palmer, from Wonder Stories (June 1930). Ray Palmer, aka RAP, growing up in Milwaukee, discovered science fiction in Hugo Gernsback 's Amazing in 1926 and read it voraciously.
Raymond A. Palmer was born in Milwaukee, WI in 1910. The editor of numerous pulp magazines as well as a prodigious sci-fi/fantasy author in his own right, Palmer passed away in 1977, at the age of 67.
