Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.

As a science fiction fan, I have long been very familiar with the various themes in the field. The superman theme has been one of them ever since Samson and He…

One night, when all the thoughts were coming to me, the concept came to me that Superman could have a dual identity, and that in one of his identities he could…

In the January, 1933 issue of 'SCIENCE FICTION' appeared a story I had written in 1932 entitled, 'The Reign of the Superman.' I used the pseudonym 'Herbert S. …

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was s…

I couldn't pronounce my last name until I was, like, 11.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. If there's any kind of fiction better than that, I don't kno…