death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
22 june 1986 silver creek , new york , usa 08 june 1915 robert f. young
 robert franklin young
robert f. young

robert franklin young -lrb- june 8 , 1915 -- june 22 , 1986 -rrb- was an american science fiction writer born in silver creek , new york .
except for the three and a half years he served in the pacific during world war ii , he spent most of his life in new york state .
he owned a property on lake erie .
he remained little known by the public , in the united states as well as abroad .
his career spanned more than thirty years , and he wrote fiction until he died .
only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the buffalo public school system .
his production started in 1953 in `` startling stories '' , then `` playboy '' , `` the saturday evening post `` and `` collier 's '' .
it mainly consisted of a long list of short stories with a poetic and romantic style that made him compared to ray bradbury and theodore sturgeon .
a good deal of these stories have been published in france by `` galaxie '' , `` fiction '' and the science fiction anthologies in the `` livre de poche '' .
in italy most of his short stories were published at `` urania '' .
his most famous short stories are perhaps `` the dandelion girl '' , which influenced the director of the anime series `` rahxephon '' , and `` little dog gone '' , which was nominated in 1965 for the hugo award for best short story .
