S P A C E L I G H T
Name: GALOUYE, Daniel Francis
Aged: 56
Born: Feb 11, 1920
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: Sept 7, 1976
Where: Veteran's Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
Interred: Covington Cemetery #1, Covington, La
Married: Carmel Barbara Jordan
When: Dec 26, 1945
Daniel F. Galouye
As a writer, Galouye (Gah-lou-ey) missed his generation by one. Had he been born 20 years earlier, Galouye would have been a pulp era SF and Fantasy great. Post war, however, his work lagged the times and sold mainly to the low end pulps where length was more important than word rate. That could have discouraged him, but Galouye wrote a great deal of work with most in the novelette and novella lengths. Writing was a discipline after the war as Galouye was employed primarily as a journalist.
In World War II, Galouye served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, sustaining injuries that would eventually shorten his life, which he lived out in Louisiana. Galouye graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.) and worked as a reporter for several newspapers, mainly The States-Item. In 1967, that career was abandoned as Galouye's health weakened from the war injuries. His residence was in New Orleans but he maintained a summer home across Lake Ponchartrain in Covington, St. Tammany Parish.
Galouye sold his first novelette, "Rebirth," in 1952 to Imagination, with the following decade showing Daniel selling to all of the pulps except Astounding, as he wasn't writing science fiction. Galouye's first novel, 1961's Dark Universe was nominated for a Hugo. Another novel, now known as Simulachron-3 has been turned into a German TV series by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and a movie, The 13th Floor. Two short story collections also appeared in the UK, 1964's The Last Leap and 1968's Project Barrier. Two additional short story collections appeared in Germany.
PEN NAMES: Louis G. Daniels
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.
OBITUARY: New Orleans States-Item.
