Fredric Brown
Fredric Brown | |
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Fredric Brown, date unknown | |
| Born | October 29, 1906 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 11, 1972 (aged 65) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story author |
| Genre | Mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror |
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Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, "Arena", was adapted into to a 1967 episode of the American television series Star Trek.