Charles L. Fontenay

Charles Louis Fontenay
Born(1917-03-17)March 17, 1917
São Paulo, Brazil
DiedJanuary 27, 2007(2007-01-27) (aged 89)
Memphis, Tennessee, US

Charles Louis Fontenay (March 17, 1917 – January 27, 2007) was an American journalist and science fiction writer. He wrote science fiction novels and short stories. His non-fiction includes the biography of the prominent New Deal era politician Estes Kefauver.[1]

Fontenay was editor of the Nashville Tennessean, among other newspapers, worked with the Associated Press and Gannett News Service. He retired to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he continued to write science fiction until shortly before his death.

He held a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.

  1. ^ Thompson, Kenneth (1996). "STATESMEN WHO WERE NEVER PRESIDENT" (PDF). The Miller Center/UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA. 2: 73. Retrieved 16 December 2014.