Victor Contoski
Victor Contoski is an American writer and university professor of Polish descent, best known for his science-fiction chess story Von Goom's Gambit, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966. He got his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. In 1980 he edited a book of poetry by poets of Polish ancestry, Blood of Their Blood. He is retired and resides in Lawrence, Kansas.