{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Raymond Zinke Gallun was an American science fiction writer. Gallun (rhymes with \"balloon\") was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He left college after one year and travelled in Europe, living a drifter's existence, working a multitude of jobs around the world in the years leading up to World War II.\r\n\r\nHe was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. His first book, People Minus X, was published in 1957 by Simon & Schuster, followed by The Planet Strappers in 1961 (Pyramid). Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; the award was later renamed The Raymond Z. Gallun Award. A posthumous autobiography, Starclimber, authored in part by Gallun and completed by Jeffrey M. Elliot, was published in September 2007.       \r\nSource: Wikipedia"}, "name": "Raymond Z. Gallun", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T13:35:46.876380"}, "death_date": "April 2, 1994", "alternate_names": ["Arthur Allport, William Callahan, E.V. Raymond, Dow Elstar."], "photos": [7397129], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2016-02-21T13:12:18.164012"}, "latest_revision": 3, "key": "/authors/OL2701716A", "birth_date": "March 22, 1911", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 3}