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Author Description Pseudonyms: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16953723.Howard_Lee" title="Howard Lee" rel="nofollow noopener">Howard Lee</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6923624.Frank_S_Shawn" title="Frank S Shawn" rel="nofollow noopener">Frank S Shawn</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6405.Kenneth_Robeson" title="Kenneth Robeson" rel="nofollow noopener">Kenneth Robeson</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/643417.Con_Steffanson" title="Con Steffanson" rel="nofollow noopener">Con Steffanson</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1872050.Josephine_Kains" title="Josephine Kains" rel="nofollow noopener">Josephine Kains</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17201505.Joseph_Silva" title="Joseph Silva" rel="nofollow noopener">Joseph Silva</a>; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43972.William_Shatner" title="William Shatner" rel="nofollow noopener">William Shatner</a>.<br />Ron Goulart is a cultural historian and novelist. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction—including the seminal <i>Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines</i> (1972)—Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the <i>Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</i> published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner’s popular <i>TekWar</i> novels. Goulart’s <i>After Things Fell Apart</i> (1970) is the only science-fiction novel to ever win an Edgar Award.<br /> <br />In the 1970s Goulart wrote novels starring series characters like Flash Gordon and the Phantom, and in 1980 he published <i>Hail Hibbler</i>, a comic sci-fi novel that began the Odd Jobs, Inc. series. Goulart has also written several comic mystery series, including six books starring Groucho Marx. Having written for comic books, Goulart produced several histories of the art form, including the <i>Comic Book Encyclopedia</i> (2004). <br />

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