Nat Schachner
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Nat Schachner (January 16, 1895 - 1955) was a American author. His first published story was "The Tower of Evil," written in collaboration with Arthur Leo Zagat and appearing in the Summer 1930 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly. Schachner, who was trained as a lawyer and a chemist, achieved his greatest success writing biographies of historical figures, after about a decade of writing science fiction short stories. Schachner was one of Isaac Asimov's favorite authors.
Schachner's first eleven stories were all written with Zagat, and after their collaboration dissolved he wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms Chan Corbett and Walter Glamis. He only published one novel in book form, Space Lawyer (1953), which originally appeared in Astounding in 1941. His career went into a decline after 1940, possibly from changing expectations of the editorial and reading public.