Otis Adelbert Kline

Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) was an American writer of adventure and science fiction and later a literary agent. Born in Chicago, he worked as a songwriter and in his family's food business before selling his first story to Weird Tales in 1923, where he was briefly an editor. His Venus novels, The Planet of Peril (1929), The Prince of Peril and The Port of Peril, and his Mars novels, The Swordsman of Mars and The Outlaws of Mars, were written in the manner of Edgar Rice Burroughs and appeared in Argosy. From the 1930s he worked mainly as an agent, representing Robert E. Howard among others.