John Myers Myers

John Myers Myers (January 11, 1906 – October 30, 1988) was an American writer. He is best known for the fantasy novel Silverlock (1949), in which a man with a Master of Business Administration travels through a fantasy land, meeting dozens of characters from myth, legend, and romance for adventure and instruction.

Myers was born and grew up on Long Island, New York. He attended the University of New Mexico briefly but was expelled for being one of the writers in a rebel newspaper, The Pariah. After extensive travel through Europe and the United States, he worked for the New York World and San Antonio Evening News. He was also an advertising copywriter. Myers served a short term in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1943, he married Charlotte Shanahan, with whom he had two daughters. He settled in Tempe, Arizona in 1948.

John Myers Myers died on October 30, 1988.

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