User:Hayford Peirce

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In my Tucson office in 2005 with Leoneta

I was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1942, and attended Exeter, Stanford, and Harvard. I graduated from Harvard in 1964 as a member of the class of 1963, having majored in English. I then moved to Tahiti, where I lived for 23 years, working as a businessman in various companies that I helped found and as a minor writer of science fiction and mystery stories. In 1988 I returned to the States to live and have been in Tucson, Arizona, since 1994.

My particular interests are old-time tennis (up until about the start of the Open Era in 1968), some branches of mystery stories and science fiction, food and cooking, and an eclectic selection of baseball players and writers and personalities such as Johnnie Mize, Evelyn Waugh, John O'Hara, and S.J. Perelman. I originated and wrote a number of lengthy Wikipedia articles, particularly those about Bill Tilden and Pancho Gonzales, as well as many other old-time tennis players and British mystery writers.

Articles that I've created in Citizendium

Pictures that I've uploaded in Citizendium

Books that I've written

Science Fiction

  • Napoleon Disentimed (1987), Tor, ISBN 1-58715-267-3
  • The Thirteenth Majestral (1989), Tor, also reissued as Dinosaur Park (1994) ISBN 0-8125-4892-2 for both books
  • Phylum Monsters (1989), Tor, ISBN 0-8125-4894-9
  • Chap Foey Rider, Capitalist to the Stars (2000)
  • Jonathan White, Stockbroker in Orbit (2001)
  • The Burr in the Garden of Eden (2001)
  • Sam Fearon: Time Scanner (2001)
  • Flickerman (2001)
  • The Spark of Life (2001)
  • Black Hole Planet (2003)
  • Aliens (2003)
  • With a Bang, and Other Forbidden Delights (2005)
  • The 13th Death of Yuri Gellaski (2005)

Mysteries and Spy Thrillers

  • Blood on the Hibiscus|Trouble in Tahiti: Blood on the Hibiscus (2000)
  • Trouble in Tahiti: P.I. Joe Caneili, Discrétion Assurée (2000)
  • Trouble in Tahiti: Commissaire Tama, Chief of Police (2000)
  • Trouble in Tahiti: The Gauguin Murders (2001)
  • The Bel Air Blitz (2002)

Internet article

  • Some Thoughts on Matt Helm's Birthday, an analysis of when Donald Hamilton's fictional character, the counter-agent and assassin Matt Helm, was actually born. [1]

Trivia

Chap Foey Rider, the Anglo-Chinese protagonist of one of my science-fiction series, is an anagram of Hayford Peirce. The first story in the series was originally written as a joke letter to the editor of Analog magazine.

Release

I release all my contributions to Citizendium, including those texts which I originally wrote for Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons CC-by-SA 2.5 license.

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http://www.time.com/time/reprints/covers

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