Robert S. Carr
Carr, Robert Spencer
March 26, 1909 – April 28, 1994 (aged 85)
Birth place: Washington, DC, USA
9 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1925 | 357 | Short Fiction | The Flying Halfback | Weird Tales, September 1925 |
| June 1926 | 735 | Short Fiction | Spider-Bite | Weird Tales, June 1926 |
| November 1926 | 704 | Poem | The Caves of Kooli-Kan | Weird Tales, November 1926 |
| March 1927 | 355 | Short Fiction | Soul-Catcher | Weird Tales, March 1927 |
| May 1927 | 695 | Short Fiction | Phantom Fingers | Weird Tales, May 1927 |
| June 1927 | 780 | Poem | Fog-Faces | Weird Tales, June 1927 |
| August 1927 | 266 | Poem | Beethoven | Weird Tales, August 1927 |
| January 1928 | 104 | Poem | The Chant of the Grave-Digger | Weird Tales, January 1928 |
| April 1928 | 490 | Short Fiction | Whispers | Weird Tales, April 1928 |
Carr fabricated the story of the "autopsy" conducted on the aliens in the supposed Roswell, NM UFO crash. He was a child prodigy with published magazine articles at age 10, an international best-selling novel author at age 18 and a Hollywood screen writer at 20.
In addition to the short story cited above, he had 3 novels and at least a dozen short stories, mostly science fiction. Like many of his colleagues, he became a member of the USA Communist party during the 1930's. He actually lived in Russia from 1933 to 1938 (during the worst of Stalin's purges), where he became totally disenchanted with Communism. He returned to the US and renounced his party membership. He refused to testify against his former comrades during the HUAC witch-hunts of the 1950's.
Contributed by his son, Timothy Spencer Carr, July 2, 1997.