Russell R. Winterbotham


Russell Robert Winterbotham was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books. He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel using the pen name "J. Harvey Bond". Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym "Franklin Hadley". He also wrote scripts for Fred Harman's western comic Red Ryder.
Winterbotham was born in Salina, Kansas, and died in Bay Village, Ohio. While writing, his full-time job was fiction editor for Scripps-Howard NEA news service.