Charles L. Fontenay

Charles Louis Fontenay ( born March 17, 1917 in São Paulo, † January 27, 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States ) was an American science fiction author and artist.

Life

Charles L. Fontenay was born in 1917 in São Paulo, Brazil, but then grew up on his parents' farm in Tennessee on. In 1936 he took the profession of reporter, he again seized after the war, in which he as an officer worked on various Pacific islands. From 1946 until his retirement in 1987, he worked as an editor for the leading newspaper Nashville Tennessean.

He also studied further, however, which in 1964 in his book Epistle to the Babylonians took precipitation, a philosophical work on the interaction of the conservative majority and the creative minority in the rise and fall of cultures. This book was later used as a basis for university lectures and earned him entry into the American philosopher register a.

Fontenay wrote three science fiction novels and a larger number of short stories. Since his retirement he has, after a long break from the SF community almost unnoticed, began again to write SF, first few stories and later novels, especially a 18 -volume youth book series, playing on a populated Mars.

As an artist he achieved success, however, showed this tendency to caricature modern art and absurdity. So he submitted a painting that was created by wiping his brushes when cleaning on a blank canvas, in a competition and received a price for it.

Fontenay also learned Tae Kwon Do ( black belt, third dan), won medals in correspondence chess and wrote a biography.