Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, "Arena", was adapted to a 1967 episode of the American television series Star Trek.

29 October 1906

Born on the same birth day (29 October): Alva B. Adams • Andrew Ettingshausen • Bob Ross • Dan Castellaneta • Dominick Dunne • Einar Örn Benediktsson • Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba • Frans de Waal • Irina Karamanos • Jean Giraudoux • Ralph Bakshi • Richard Brancatisano • Stephen Craigan • Zoot Sims

Born in the same month (October 1906): Andrey Tikhonov (mathematician) • James Brooks (painter) • Joe Cronin • Karl Humenberger • Paul Creston