Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell was a Scottishborn mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published nonfiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.
Bell was born in Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland, but his father, a factor, relocated to San Jose, California in 1884, when he was fifteen months old. The family returned to Bedford, England after his fathers death, on January 4, 1896. Bell returned to the United States by way of Montreal in 1902.
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