Facts: - period: 1949 -- 1976 - death date: 1980 - genre: science fiction - pseudonym: henderson starke - birth date: 1925 - name: kris ottman neville - nationality: united states - birth place: st. louis - occupation: novelist , short story writer , journalist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kris ottman neville .
kris ottman neville -lrb- 9 may 1925 -- 23 december 1980 -rrb- was an american science fiction writer from california .he was born in st. louis .his first science fiction work was published in 1949 .his most famous work , the novella '' bettyann '' , is considered an underground classic of science fiction .