Background
He was born in Ponca, Nebraska.
He was born in Ponca, Nebraska.
He attended Albany schools and began working in the printing trade as a teenager, first in his brother"s printing shop, then with the Albany Democrat newspaper.
Two hundred of Alexander"s short stories were published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Detective Fiction Weekly, Ace-High Detective Magazine, Blue Book and Sunset. Alexander, also an expert linotype operator, retired as a full-time worker from the Democrat after 50 years in February 1962.
