John Hayden Howard (1925-2014) was an American educator, poet and science fiction author.
He taught sixth grade at Jefferson Elementary School in Santa Barbara until it closed in 1972.
Howard died in Santa Barbara, survived by his wife Jillian Pearce Winslow, four children, six grandchildren, a sister and two nephews.
[2][3] In a career extending from 1952 to 1971, Howard wrote a scattering of short stories for various science fiction magazines, his work appearing in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Galaxy Magazine, If, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Planet Stories, and Worlds of If.
His most extended series comprises seven tales exploring overpopulation, featuring "a group of indigenous Canadian Inuit (referred to as Eskimos, a term not then deprecated) ... transformed by an Alien presence into an apparently benign, fast-breeding new species called Esks, which duly become an Esk Problem."