His short story “Arena,” was used as the basis for the episode of the same name in the original Star Trek (season 1, episode 8) science-fiction television series. His first science fiction story, “Not Yet the End,” was published in Captain Future in 1941. In addition to his mystery novels, Brown also wrote science fiction novels and short stories.
It won the Edgar Award for outstanding first mystery novel. Brown worked as a proofreader and typesetter for the Milwaukee Journal his professional writing career began in 1936 when he began to sell mystery short stories to such pulp magazines as Street & Smith’s Detective Story, Thrilling Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly.Īfter a decade of publishing his short stories in magazine, Brown’s first mystery novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint was published in 1947. In 1930 the couple moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In 1929, Brown married Helen Ruth, a woman he had known only through a series of letters they had exchanged by mail. He then worked odd jobs and spent a year at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, and a year at the University of Cincinnati. After graduation, he got a job as an office boy with a small factory until the company closed in 1924. Fredric was left to live with friends and relatives through high school. His mother passed away in 1920, when he was fourteen years old. Karl Lewis, was a newspaperman and his mother, Emma Amelia, was a homemaker. Fredric Brown was born in 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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