ABSTRACT
The son of Henry and Annie Lewis Kuttner, Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 7, 1915. His father, a book dealer, died when the boy was five, and the family moved to San Francisco briefly before returning to Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, Kuttner worked in a literary agency, reading manuscripts. Kuttner's early reading was greatly influenced by his interest in science fiction, fantasy, and stories of supernatural horror. Kuttner's marriage to Moore was to have a profound effect upon his writing. Moore, an experienced and skillful writer, had been publishing longer than her husband and during her career, published stories of considerable distinction-Shambleau', 'No Woman Born', and 'Vintage Season', among others. The plots of the Gallegher stories are farcical, but science fiction is a literature of ideas, and Kuttner uses the stories to criticize a world that has trouble adjusting its social structures to a runaway technology.
