Will Jenkins.

Writer. William Fitzgerald Jenkins was born June 16, 1896, in Norfolk, Virginia. He dropped out of school at age thirteen to go to work. Perhaps inspired by the publication of his classroom eulogy of Robert E. Lee, he concentrated on writing and published his first story when he was seventeen years old. For virtually his working entire life he earned his income as a freelance writer and became one of the major forces in science fiction—indeed, he is universally regarded as the dean of that genre—under his most frequent pseudonym, Murray Leinster.