Author: Steve Fisher
Alternate names: Stephen Gould; Grant Lane; Stephen Gould Fisher
Born: 29 August 1912
Died: 27 March 1980
Bio: Stephen Gould Fisher was born in Marine City, Michigan and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Oneonta Military Academy until age sixteen when he left to join the U.S. Navy. He served in the submarine service for four years, during which time he wrote stories which he sold to *U.S. Navy* and *Our Navy*.

After he left the Navy, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York to write full-time. In 1934, he published his first story, “Hell’s Scoop,” in Sure-Fire Detective Magazine.
He wrote for the pulps into the 1950s. He also crossed over into slick magazines such as *Liberty*, *Collier's*, *The Saturday Evening Post*, and *Cosmopolitan*. He moved to Hollywood to work on screenplays and novels. He died of a heart attack at his home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles at age 67.