T.P. Caravan was born Charles Carroll Muñoz on July 2, 1926 in the Bronx, New York. His parents were O.A. and Constance (née Stoutenburgh) Muñoz.

During World War II, Muñoz served in the United States Navy as an aerial gunner, flying in Avenger bombers. When the war was over, he remained in the U.S. Merchant Marines, serving as a radio officer on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships. He also served during both the Korean and Vietnam Wars on munitions ships.

He earned his Master’s degree from Columbia in 1953 with a thesis about the eighteen century English poet Edward Young. In 1952, while attending Columbia University, he began publishing science fiction under the Caravan name with the short story “Happy Solution,” which appeared in the January issue of Other Worlds. Several other science fiction stories followed over the next thirteen years, including seven sequels to “Happy Solution.”

He married Bernardine Martin in 1955 in New York. They had three sons, Chuck, John, and Rob.

Muñoz held several jobs, including writing technical manuals on Arctic survival for the United States Air Force, teaching college English, working as an executive at Xerox, Grolier, and Mattel, and finally becoming a vice president for the publishing company Springhouse Corporation.

A poet, he was the poet laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, earned four Pushcart nominations, spent five years serving as the poetry editor of Jewish Spectator magazine, and was the official bard of the Gunroom of HMS Surprise, a Patrick O’Brien fan club.

In 1957, he published his only novel, Stowaway, under his own name. In 2001, he would published Fragments of Myth, a collection of his poetry.

Muñoz died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on February 22, 2018. Although he was buried at sea with military honors, there is a gravestone for him at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Newton, Pennsylvania.

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Steven H Silver is a twenty-two-time Hugo Award nominee and was the publisher of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Argentus as well as the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for eight years. He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB. His most recent anthology is Alternate Peace and his novel After Hastings was published in 2020. Steven has chaired the first Midwest Construction, Windycon three times, and the SFWA Nebula Conference numerous times. He was programming chair for Chicon 2000 and Vice Chair of Chicon 7.