R. DeWitt Miller

Richard DeWitt Miller was an American writer of science fiction and Forteana. His first science-fiction publication was "The Shapes" which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1936. His non-fiction books include You Do Take It With You as well as The Mastery of the Master, Impossible - Yet It Happened, Stranger Than Life, You Do Take It with You: An Adventure into the Vaster Reality, and Reincarnation: The Whole Startling Story. Miller wrote one science-fiction novelette published in March 1938 by Astounding Science Fiction under the title "The Master Shall Not Die" with no collaborator; it was not issued in book form until 1956, when Ace Books brought it out in its dos-à-dos format List of [Ace SF Double Titles|Ace Doubles] under the title The Man Who Lived Forever, with co-author Anna Hunger. The book was bound back-to-back with Jerry Sohl's The Mars Monopoly. Miller also authored a fantasy work entitled The Loose Board in the Floor.