Philip Francis Nowlan

Philip Francis Nowlan
Born	1888 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 1, 1940 (aged 51–52)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Period	1928 - 1940
Genres	Science fiction
Subjects	Buck Rogers
Notable work(s)	Armageddon 2419 A.D.

Philip Francis Nowlan (1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 1, 1940 in Philadelphia) was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.

Career

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania he worked as a newspaper columnist. He married, moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd and created and wrote the Buck Rogers comic strip, illustrated by Dick Calkins. The character Buck Rogers first appeared in Nowlan's 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D. as Anthony Rogers. The comic strip ran for over forty years and spun off a radio series, a 1939 movie serial, and two television series.^{[citation needed]}

Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery, The Girl from Nowhere.

Persona life

Nowlan was married to Theresa Junker. They had ten children: Philip, Mary, Helen, Louise, Theresa, Mike, Larry, Pat, John, and Joe.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928)
• The Girl from Nowhere (1928, ISBN 0-8095-0038-8 (Neuauflage von 2005)
• The Airlords of Han (1929)
  • Munseys.com » The AIRLORDS of HAN at www.munseys.com
• The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan at Project Gutenberg on Project Gutenberg
• The Time Jumpers
• The Onslaught from Venus
• The Prince of Mars Returns
• Space Guards
• Wings Over Tomorrow: The Collected Science Fiction of Philip Francis Nowlan (ISBN 0-8095-1095-2)edited by Lee Weinstein www.MySpace.com/leestein

External links

• Philip Francis Nowlan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database