Lloyd Mallan (1914-1973) was a 20th-century American science writer. His works were controversial in that they often went against scientific consensus at the time.[1]
Mallan was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1914.[2] He attended Carnegie Tech as a night student.[3]
Mallan joined the Communist party in 1932 and went to Spain from 1937 to 1938 to fight with the Loyalists against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War.[4] He was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers fighting against the fascists.[2]
After returning from the war, he was a writer and translator. In 1939 he wrote a piece on the assassinated poet Federico García Lorca that "helped shape the public [US] image of him".[4]
Mallan became a full time freelance writer and popularizer of science, and especially space technology, in the 1950s.[4] His works included: