Richard Sharpe Shaver

Richard Sharpe Shaver was an American writer and artist who achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories that were printed in science fiction magazines. In Shaver's story, he claimed that he had had personal experience of a sinister ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the claim by Shaver, and his editor and publisher Ray Palmer, that Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true. Shaver's stories were promoted by Ray Palmer as "The Shaver Mystery".

8 October 1907

Born on the same birth day (8 October): Antonio Cabrini • Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro • Bill Elliott • Bronislovas Lubys • Clarence Williams (musician) • Edythe Chapman • François Pérusse • Gregori Chad Petree • Hansa Yogendra • Harri Koskela • Harvey Pekar • Jim Elliot • Kari Korhonen • Karyn Parsons • Leeroy Thornhill • Narapatisithu • Ozias Leduc • Raffi Torres • Sione Lousi • Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg • Travis Pastrana

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