Niels Meyn  Niels Gustav Meyn (born 11 December 1891 in Copenhagen, died April 15, 1957 in Gentofte), was a Danish author. Meyn's father was a pharmacist and an operations manager at the Carlsberg Brewery. His mother was an officer's daughter from the German family von Kohl. Meyn had a son, Hans Ole Nissen Weller, by Ebba Lili (Mickey) Weller but was never married and never officially listed as Ole's father. He did, however, have contact with his son throughout his life. Meyn debuted in 1910, the same year he completed his schooling, with a short story in the newspaper "Hjemmet". In 1911 he started a degree in natural sciences, never completed, and in the same year he published his first novel, co-written with August Klingsey, "Med luftskib til Mars". His own first solo-written novel was "Rejsen til Venus", published in 1915. Before becoming a professional fiction-writer, Meyn worked for a while for the East Asiatic Company, and from 1917-19 for "Politikens lejebibliotek". As a journalist he wrote hundreds of articles for various journals, mainly on popular science topics. Meyn had started as a translator for Litteraturselskabet in the first decade of the 1900s, but had not worked there long before he discovered that it was quicker to write stories himself than to translate them. It was, however, his route into the pulp fiction industry that flourished in the early twentieth century, and he contributed to many of the Litteraturselsskabet's series that otherwise mostly consisted of translations. Before his death in the mid-1950s, Meyn wrote more than 300 crime stories, counting the many pulp-fiction stories he published. In addition Meyn wrote under more than 30 different pseudonyms, among them George Griffith, Harold Chester, Rex Nelson, David Gartner, Gustav Hardner and, the best known and most used, Charles Bristol. This enabled him to publish his stories at the same furious rate as he produced them. He also wrote anonymously. Sometimes, needing money, Meyn sold the ideas for stories to others for them to finish writing. His output included children's books, science fiction, animal books and nonfiction. Meyn wrote for money, but was not without literary ambitions---but never succeeded in gaining acceptance as a literary author, since in Denmark popular literature was looked down on, at least until the early 1980s.