Author. He is remembered as an American biographer and science fiction writer. His best-known biographies are "Thomas Jefferson," vols 1 & 2 in 1952, "Aaron Burr" in 1937 and "Alexander Hamilton" in 1946. Between 1930 and 1946, he began his career with at least 100 horror and science fiction short stories being published in magazines such as "Astounding Stories", "Dime Mystery Magazine," and "Astounding Science Fiction." He published his only science fiction novel "Space Lawyer" in 1953. He was an avid supporter of space travel. He was the founder and officer of the American Interplanetary Society in the early 1930s. In 1931 he co-authored with Arthur Zagat the three-volume science fiction series "Exiles to the Moon." He was one of the contributors to Book #3 of "Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s." Besides his own name of Nathaniel Schachner, which was shortened to "Nathan" or "Nat", he wrote under the pennames of Chan Corbett, and Walter Glamis. Besides science fiction and biographies, he wrote essays and non-fiction such as "The Price of Liberty: A History of the American Jewish Committee" and "Joe Worker and the Story of Labor" both in 1948. He graduated from the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1915. During World War I, he served in the military in chemical weapons. He also obtained his doctorate from New York University in 1919. Starting in 1915, he held a chemist position with the State of New York Health Department. He was accepted to the New York Bar in 1919 and was in law practice until 1933, when he started his writing career. Starting in 1945, he was consultant for American Jewish Committee, and in 1954, he became a director of public relations for National Council of Jewish Women, where he worked till his death in 1955. He married in 1919 and the couple had a daughter.