Frank R. Paul

Frank R. Paul
Photo portrait c. 1939
Born
Rudolph Franz Paul

(1884-04-18)April 18, 1884
Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary
DiedJune 29, 1963(1963-06-29) (aged 79)
Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationArchitecture
Known forIllustrator
SpouseRudolpha Costa Rigelsen
Paul's cover for Amazing Stories, August 1927, illustrating The War of the Worlds

Frank Rudolph Paul (German: [paʊl]; born Rudolph Franz Paul; April 18, 1884 – June 29, 1963) was an American illustrator of pulp magazines in the science fiction field.

A discovery of editor Hugo Gernsback, Paul was influential in defining the look of both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s.[1]

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2009.[2]

  1. ^ Jon Gustafson and Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. John Clute and Peter Nicholls, 1993, St. Martin's Press, N.Y.
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