Facts: - death place: long branch , new jersey , usa - magnum opus: '' ordeal by fire '' - caption: fletcher issue of '' science wonder stories '' pratt , as pictured in the june 1929 - death date: 10 june 1956 - genre: science fiction , fantasy , history - pseudonym: irvin lester , george u. fletcher - birth date: 25 april 1897 - name: fletcher pratt - nationality: american - image: fpratt sws.jpg - birth place: buffalo , new york - occupation: novelist , historian Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of fletcher pratt .
murray fletcher pratt -lrb- 1897 -- 1956 -rrb- was an american writer of science fiction , fantasy and history .he is best known for his works on naval history and on the american civil war and for fiction written with l. sprague de camp .