Author: Randall Garrett
Alternate names: Darrel T. Langart (pseud.); David Gordon (pseud.); Alexander Blade (pseud.); Richard Greer (pseud.); Ivar Jorgensen (pseud.); Clyde Mitchell (pseud.); Leonard G. Spencer (pseud.); S. M. Tenneshaw (pseud.); Gerald Vance (pseud.); Gordon Aghill (pseud.); Mark Phillips (joint pseudonym with Laurence M. Janifer); Robert Randall (joint pseudonym with Robert Silverberg); Johnathan Blake MacKenzie (pseud.)
Born: December 16, 1927
Died: December 31, 1987
Bio: Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections.

He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention.

Source: wikipedia