Oscar J. Friend

Oscar Jerome Friend (January 8, 1897 - January 1963) began his career primarily as a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Captain Future and Thrilling Wonder Stories. He was also co-editor for several anthologies.

He was born on January 8, 1897 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jinnie L. and Joseph Friend. He married Irene Ozment in 1917.

Oscar Friend moved to Los Angeles at the request of Walt Disney Productions, and worked for some time as a scriptwriter for films at Universal Studios before returning to New York. Friend penned several episodes of the television series, "The Saint," as well as writing for "The Twilight Zone."

He died in January 1963.

Upon the death of his friend and literary agent, Otis Kline, Oscar Friend acquired ownership of his company, Otis Kline Associates. Friend, with the partnership of his wife Irene Ozment Friend, became one of the foremost international science fiction and fantasy agents of the 1950s and 1960s. Oscar Friend's clients included many talented ground-breaking authors, among them: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon, Murray Leinster, and Frank Herbert.

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