Young extraterrestrials
Doorstep - short story by Keith Laumer
Who's on First? - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
In the Jaws of Danger - short story by Piers Anthony
The Witness - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
The Mississippi Saucer - short story by Frank Belknap Long
Primary Education of the Camiroi - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Tween - novelette by J. F. Bone
Zoo - short story by Edward D. Hoch
Subcommittee - novelette by Zenna Henderson
Keyhole - short story by Murray Leinster
Kindergarten - short story by James E. Gunn
Extraterrestrial beings, Science fiction, Short stories, Fiction, Children's fiction
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Keith Laumer, Lloyd Biggle Jr, Piers Anthony, Eric Frank Russell, Frank Belknap Long, R. A. Lafferty, Jesse F. Bone, Edward D. Hoch, Zenna Henderson, Murray Leinster, James E. Gunn
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and business partner of Isaac Asimov. || Lloyd Biggle was born in Waterloo, Iowa. During World War II he served in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division and was wounded twice, leaving him disabled for life.  After the war, he received an A.B. Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.  He taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s.  He began writing professionally in 1955, and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, All the Colors of Darkness in 1963.  He published two-dozen books, magazine stories, and numerous articles.  He continued writing until his death in 2002. || Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England.  When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States.  He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble.  After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance.  In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen.  He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper.  He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer.  Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. || English science fiction writer || Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, a history book, and several novels of historical fiction. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty) || Longtime mystery writer and editor Edward Dentinger Hoch was practically an institution in the field. Born in 1930, he published over eight hundred mystery stories including one in every issue of *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine* from 1973 to 1981. His TV writing credits include episodes of "MacMillan and Wife", "Night Gallery", the "Alfred Hitchcock Show", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Mr. Hoch served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote mysteries under the pseudonyms Anthony Circus, R.E. Porter and R.L. Stevens. Mr. Hoch died January 17, 2008.
- Source: http://histmyst.org/profiles.html || James Edwin Gunn served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, after which he earned a journalism degree from the University of Kansas, followed by a Masters of Arts in English in 1951. He became the director of public relations for the University of Kansas. He then became a professor Professor of English, specializing in science fiction and fiction writing, and is currently a professor emeritus and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1971–1972 and was President of the Science Fiction Research Association from 1980–1982.