Sam Merwin Jr.

Samuel Kimball Merwin Jr. (1910 - 1996) was an American mystery fiction writer, editor and science fiction author, who published fiction mostly as Sam Merwin Jr. His pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat and Carter Sprague. Merwin is probably best remembered today for the alternate worlds novel The House of Many Worlds and its sequel, Three Faces of Time (1955). Boucher and McComas, although faulting its ending, characterized The House of Many Worlds as "admirably handled.... the writing is the best that Merwin has yet published." P. Schuyler Miller praised the novel as "roundly entertaining, firmly plotted and fully packed with all sorts of neat little bits of color and detail.