Two Views of Wonder

Thomas Nicholas Scortia was born in Alton, Illinois. In 1949, he received a degree in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. He went on to work for a number of aerospace companies, while writing in his spare time. In the early 1970s, he left his job to write full-time. He died of leukemia in California in 1986.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is an American writer of over eighty books (including historical horror novels about Count Saint-Germain), more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music.