Author. He was an American author of the 20th century. Born the only son of two children, his mother was a member of the well-respected Furnas family of Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the University of Louisville from 1935 to 1936 before becoming a Merchant Marine during World War II and seeing ports in Europe and north Africa. During the war, he wrote his first published story using his full name, later he used "Emmett McDowell," but returning to his full name in the 1960s. Between 1945 and 1954, he published nearly 40 stories for pulp fiction magazines. Some of the magazines that published his stories were "Jungle Stories," "Frontier Stories," "Action Stories," "Adventure," and "Planet Stories." He was known for writing science fiction and detective novels, the best-known being, "Switcheroo" in 1954, "Stamped for Death" in 1956, "Bloodline to Murder" in 1960, "Portrait of a Victim" in 1964, and "The Hounds Tooth" in 1966. His paperback novel, "Stamped for Death," was adapted as an episode using the same name for the television series "Hawaiian Eye," airing in January of 1960. Besides being an author, he was an active historian, especially Louisville, Kentucky as that was his Furnas family ancestral home. Along with being published in several historical periodicals, he published books on this subject such as "City of Conflict" in 1962, which was a nonfiction study of Louisville during the American Civil War and "Portrait of a Victim" in 1964, which was a Daniel Boone story. In the early 1960s he wrote one play "Home Is the Hunter", which was about the first settlement in Kentucky dating 1774. The play was successful locally and was performed during the summer for a few years. In the mid-1960s, he started a series of novels based on the character Floyd Bowman, a deputy in the Kentucky State Police, but died before the second novel was finished. Award winning and much more recognized author, Evangeline Walton was his second cousin. He married and the couple had a son.