Louis Charbonneau

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Louis Henry Charbonneau Jr. (born January 24, 1924 in Detroit , Michigan , † May 11, 2017 in Lomita , California ) was an American author who wrote science fiction , fiction , western novels and radio plays .

Life

Louis Charbonneau was the son of attorney Henry Charbonneau and Mary Ellen, née Young. He served in the US Air Force in Great Britain from 1943 to 1946 , where he met Hilda Sweeney, whom he married in 1945. After the war, he studied at the University of Detroit and received a Master of Arts degree in 1950 . From 1948 to 1952 he was a lecturer in English literature at the University of Detroit. In 1952 he moved to Los Angeles and worked there as a copywriter for the Mercury Advertising Agency until 1956 , after which he was a journalist for the Los Angeles Times until 1971 . From 1971 to 1974 he worked as a freelance writer and was then an editor at Security World Publishing .

1958 his first novel No Place on Earth was published. Six of his nine science fiction novels have been translated into German.

In the years 1948 to 1953 he wrote a number of radio plays and in 1963/1964 the scripts for two episodes of the television series The Outer Limits ( Corpus Earthling , based on the novel of the same name from 1960, and Cry of Silence )

He published his numerous western novels under the pseudonym Carter Travis Young .

bibliography

as Louis Charbonneau:

  • No Place on Earth (SF, 1958)
    • English: Escape to the Stars. Translated by Iris Foerster and Rolf H. Foerster. Goldmann Science Fiction # 11, 1960.
  • Crucible (1958)
  • Night of Violence (1959, also as The Trapped Ones )
    • English: Night in the motel: crime thriller. Translated by Hans Georg Simon. Heyne books # 1219, Munich 1966, DNB 456264361 .
  • Nor All Your Tears (1959, also as The Time of Desire )
  • Corpus Earthling (SF, 1960)
  • Psychedelic-40 (SF, 1964)
  • The Sentinel Stars (SF, 1963)
  • Way Out (1966)
    • German: Hot nights in Hollywood. Translated by Alexandra Baumrucker and Gerhard Baumrucker . Goldmann crime novels #K. 592, Munich and Wollerau / Switzerland 1967, DNB 456264396 .
  • Down to Earth (SF, 1967, also as Antic Earth )
    • English: Death of a Robot. Translated by Tony Westrmayr. Goldmann's Science Fiction # 73, 1967.
  • The Sensitives (SF, 1968)
    • German: The supernatural. Based on the script by Deane Romano. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0144, 1972, ISBN 3-442-23144-2 .
  • Intruder (1968)
    • German: revenge by computer. Translated by Otto Bayer. Ullstein # 39154, Frankfurt / M. and Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-39154-0 .
  • Down from the Mountain (1969)
  • Barrier World (1970)
    • German: The God of Perfection. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0132, 1971, ISBN 3-442-23132-9 .
  • Hope to Die (1970, also as And Hope to Die )
    • English: Poker with marked cards: detective novel. Translated by Wulf Bergner . Goldmann-Taschenkrimi # 4073, Munich and Wollerau / Switzerland 1971, DNB 456264337 .
  • From a Dark Place (1974)
  • Embryo (SF, 1976)
  • Intruder (SF, 1979)
  • The Lair (1980)
  • The Brea File (1983)
  • Trail: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1989)
  • The Ice: A Novel of Antarctica (1991)
  • Stalk: A Novel of Suspense (1992)
    • German: The battue. Translated by Angelika Bardeleben. Heyne books # 10032, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-11628-3 .
  • White Harvest (1994)
    • German: Weisses Gold. Translated by Wolfgang Buchalla. Heyne-Bücher # 10286, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12455-3 .
  • The Magnificent Siberian (1995)
  • The Devil's Menagerie (1996)

as Carter Travis Young:

  • The Sudden Gun (1960)
  • The Wild Breed (1960)
  • The Savage Plain (1961)
  • Shadow of a Gun (1961)
  • The Bitter Iron (1964)
  • Long Boots, Hard Boots (1965)
  • Why Did They Kill Charley? (1967)
  • Down from the Mountain (1969)
  • Winchester Quarantine (1970)
  • The Pocket Hunters (1972)
  • Winter of the Coup (1972)
  • The Captive (1973)
  • Blaine's Law (1974)
  • Guns of Darkness (1974)
  • Red Grass (1976)
  • Winter Drift (1980)
  • The Smoking Hills (1988)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis H. Charbonneau Jr. Obituary. In: legacy.com. The Detroit News, May 17, 2017, accessed May 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Charbonneau, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charbonneau, Louis Henry Jr. (full name); Charbonneau, Louis H. (alternative spelling); Young, Carter Travis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and western writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2017
Place of death Lomita , California , United States