Goulart, Ron

Ron Goulart (b. 1933) is a cultural historian and novelist. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction including the seminal "Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines" (1972) Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the" Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction "published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner s p...