Norman L. Knight

Norman Louis Knight (September 21, 1895 – April 19, 1972) was an American chemist and writer of fantasy and science fiction.

Particularly the short story Saurian Valedictory, published in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1939, was praised by famous science fiction couple Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett, who made a comment that "It was a brilliant achievement and nobody seems to have heard of it, or him.

It succeeded triumphantly; the values were all so different, the psychology", and described it as "One of the really great stories on alien mentality".

[3] Knight was a young man in St Joseph, Missouri in the early part of the 20th century.

He joined the US Army Signal Corps in 1917, and was sent to France where his initial service was interrupted with a hospital; stay due to influenza.