Richard Wilson (author)

Richard Wilson (23 September 1920 – 29 March 1987) was an American science fiction writer and fan.

His books included the novels The Girls from Planet 5 (1955); 30-Day Wonder (1960); and And Then the Town Took Off (1960); and the collections Those Idiots from Earth (1957)[1] and Time Out for Tomorrow (1962).

Wilson also worked in the public relations field as director of the Syracuse University News Bureau from 1964 to 1980.

As part of this effort, Wilson wrote an article entitled "Syracuse University's Science Fiction Collections" for the May 1967 issue of the magazine Worlds of Tomorrow.

Initially housed in a warehouse annex, the papers eventually made their way to the climate-controlled top floor of Ernest Stevenson Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus.