Bruce Cassiday was an American writer and editor. He was the author and editor of pulp fiction

Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...

, suspense and espionage stories, Gothics

Gothics

Gothics is the tenth highest of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Park in New York, USA. Much of the mountain is covered in bare rock slides, which give the mountain its name due to their resemblance to Gothic architecture. The summit has near 360 degree views, which combined with its location in...

, medical melodramas, radio and TV dramas and novelization

Novelization

A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays...

s, "how-to

How-to

A how-to or a how to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task. A how-to is usually meant to help non-experts, may leave out details that are only important to experts, and may also be greatly simplified from an overall discussion of the topic...

" books on landscaping, home carpentry, solar houses, ghostwritten

Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...

 biographies, and reader's guides on detective, mystery and science-fiction literature.

Cassiday was born on January 25, 1920, in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, and went to UCLA. Among his pseudonyms were Con Steffanson, Annie Laurie McAllister, Annie Laurie McMurdie, Mary Ann Drew, C.K. Fong. He also collaborated with other authors.

He was married to Doris Galloway in 1950, and they had a son and a daughter. He died in Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643, making it the fourth largest city in the state and the eighth largest city in New England...

, on January 12, 2005, of Parkinson disease, from which he had suffered since 1999.