[2] He described himself as "the most published, underpaid, and most unknown writer in the U.S."[3] Some of his novels appear to be set in a shared universe, one where Earth experiences a nuclear apocalypse shortly after launching a colonization fleet to settle new worlds among the stars.
He received his education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[4][5][6] Zachary started writing as a full-time occupation along with his wife Elizabeth in 1963.
For example, The World where Sex was Born was written using the pseudonym, Peter Kanto.
NOTE: The Thunderworld series shares a common history, stellar cartography, and sometimes characters.