Stephen Tall was the most common pseudonym of American science fiction writer Compton Newby Crook (June 14 1908 – January 1981, Baltimore, Maryland). Crook was also a professor at Towson University and a long-time resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Crook's early writing, published under his own name, began appearing in 1930, but he didn't begin to publish science fiction until 1955 with the appearance of "The Lights on Precipice Peak" in "Galaxy". Wikipedia
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