Tom Godwin

At the age of five, his younger sister died as a result of an accidental shooting that occurred after he had been "playing with the gun that killed her".

He withdrew from school after the third grade,[1] but he went on to teach himself multiple other subjects to expand his knowledge and be able to write better stories.

[5] In the early 1960s, Godwin was living in a remote area of northwestern Arizona with his father while writing and making his own drywashers to sell.

After living with his adopted daughter and her family in Texas for some time after his wife's death, he moved to Nevada.

He did not have any identification on him so his body was held at a funeral home until a friend of his who was a physician assistant learned of his death and contacted his daughter, Diane.

Godwin's novelette, "No Species Alone," was not published until the November issue despite being cover-featured on the July 1954 issue of Universe Science Fiction .
Godwin's, "The Nothing Equation," was his first short story to be published in Amazing Stories . It appeared in the magazine's December issue in 1957.