Harl Vincent born Harold Vincent Schoepflin on October 19, 1893 in Buffalo, New York to Ida (nee Kuntz) and Reverend William Schoepflin. Vincent married Ruth F. Hoff in 1911. They had a daughter, Jane, in 1913 and a son, Guy, in 1925.

He debuted in the June, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories with the story “The Golden Girl of Munan” and he published in Amazing, Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Astounding, and other magazines into the 1930s. He managed to continue to sell to Amazing after Hugo Gernsback lost control of the magazine, often bringing a sense of wonder to the stories, even if they were not particularly innovative. Walter Gillings noted that Vincent was not particularly successful at adapting to Amazing’s “thought-variant” demands of the time.

In 1935, he was one of the ten participants who wrote a story called “The Challenge Beyond” as part of a challenge from Fantasy Magazine. He participated in the version of the story, co-written with Murray Leinster, Edward E. Smith,  Donald Wandrei, and Stanley G. Weinbaum.

Most of Vincent’s work appeared before 1943, although he made a resurgence in the 1960s, with a short stories published in Sam Moskowitz’s anthologies The Coming of the Robots and Strange Signposts  and posthumous stories appearing in If and Famous Science Fiction. In 1996, he published the novel The Doomsday Planet.

Vincent died on May 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.

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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.