Russell R. Winterbotham

R.R. Winterbotham (1904-1971) was an American writer of science fiction and western genre fiction. He was born in Salina, Kansas, and passed away in Bay Village, Ohio. While he wrote his various books, he worked full-time as a fiction editor for the Scripps-Howard NEA news service. His most notable literary contributions, in addition to The Red Planet, were The Other World (1963), The Lord of Nardos (1966), and Maximo, the Amazing Superman (1940).