Jack Williamson — American Writer born on April 29, 1908, died on November 10, 2006

John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund... (wikipedia)

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.