Background
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri.
He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1931.
Pseudonyms included John South Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and East. K. Jarvis (a house name). His first published story was "Zero as a Limit", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1937, under the pseudonym of "Robert Moore". He was a prolific author throughout his career, his last novel appearing in 1972.
His "Jongor" series was originally published in Fantastic Adventures in the 1940s and 1950s, and appeared in book form in 1970.
By the 1960s he had published over 150 stories.