M.E. Chaber(1910-1981)
- Writer
Kendell Foster Crossen was born in Albany, Ohio, and educated at Rio
Grande College. He was employed by the WPA Writers Project in New York
after working as an insurance investigator in Ohio. He was a prolific
pulp writer and was editor of the pulp magazine "Detective Fiction
Weekly". As the pulps died in the early 1950s, Crossen became a
novelist. Although he wrote some science-fiction, most of his novels
were crime or espionage fiction. As M.E. Chaber he wrote more than 20
novels featuring insurance investigator Milo March, including "A Lonely
Walk".