Norman L. Knight

Norman Louis Knight was an accomplished chemist and an American author of fantasy and science fiction. His most prominent work is probably A Torrent of Faces, a novel cowritten with James Blish and reprinted in the Ace Science Fiction Specials line

Knight was born at St. Joseph, Missouri on September 21, 1895 at 2109 Messanie Road with his father Louis Ruthven Knight, and his mother Mary E. Knight . Normans father was a druggist, and the family lived over the family drug store.

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