![]() ![]() ![]() By 1959, he was able to quit his job and write full-time. His first published story, "Greenface", appeared in Unknown magazine in 1945. ![]() At the same time, however, he was writing science fiction short stories. When the war was over, Schmitz returned to the US and got a job manufacturing farm equipment. He joined the US Air Force and served throughout the war. Schmitz, despite his German upbringing, was not at all uncertain where his loyalties lay in the war that was about to start. The family stayed in Germany throughout his childhood, only returning to the United States in 1938. James Henry Schmitz was born in 1911 in Hamburg, Germany to American parents. In the 1960's and early 70's, no list of great science fiction authors was complete without three names: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and James H Schmitz. ![]()
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