{{short description|American writer}} {{Use American English|date=August 2013}}{{Infobox person
|name = Bryce Walton |image = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date|1918|05|31}} |birth_place = Blythedale, Missouri, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1988|02|05|1918|05|31}} |death_place = Van Nuys, California, U.S. |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |other_names = Kenneth O'Hara, Paul Franklin |known_for = |education = California State University |alma_mater = |credits = |occupation = Writer |party = |boards = |spouse = Ruth Arschinov |children = 1 |website = }} '''Bryce Walton''' (May 31, 1918 – February 5, 1988) was an American pulp fiction writer.
Walton was born in Blythedale, Missouri, the son of Paul Dean Walton and Golda Powers. He held various jobs starting in 1938, and attended Los Angeles Junior College 1939–41.<ref name="RMB2010"/> During World War II, he served as a navy correspondent.<ref name="Ash2008"/> In 1945, he began a career as a freelance writer. He attended California State College from 1946 to 1947, then married photographer Ruth Arschinov on January 1, 1954. The couple had one daughter, Krissta Kay.<ref name="RMB2010"/>
He was credited as a writer for the TV serial ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers''. A reference guide published in 2010 made the unsupported claim that Walton won a 1961 Alfred Hitchcock Best Short Story award.<ref name="RMB2010"/> However the existence of such award has subsequently been called into question.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-hitchcock-project-bryce-walton-part.html|title=bare•bones e-zine: The Hitchcock Project-Bryce Walton Part One: Touché [4.35]|last=Seabrook|first=Jack|date=2016-07-21|website=bare•bones e-zine|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> He wrote three episodes of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', and two of his stories were adapted for the series,<ref name="tv.com"/> including "The Greatest Monster of Them All".<ref name="Szumskyj2010"/>
==Bibliography== {{Div col}} * ''Sons of the Ocean Deeps'' (1952) * ''The Long Night'' (1952) * ''Captain Video and his Video Rangers'' (1953) * ''Cave of Danger'' (1967) * ''Harpoon Gunner'' (1968) * ''Hurricane Reef'' (1970) * ''Cave of Danger'' (1971) * ''The Fire Trail'' (1974) {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="RMB2010">{{Citation | last1 = Reginald | first1 = R. | last2 = Menville | first2 = Douglas | last3 = Burgess | first3 = Mary A. | title = Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature | volume = 2 | publisher = Wildside Press LLC | page = 1116 | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-0941028776 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&pg=PA1116 | postscript= . }}</ref>
<ref name="Ash2008">{{Citation | last1 = Ash | first1 = Brian | title = Who's who in science fiction | publisher = Elm Tree Books | page = 201 | year = 1976 | isbn = 0241893836 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IU9lAAAAMAAJ | postscript= . }}</ref>
<ref name="Szumskyj2010">{{Citation | last1 = Szumskyj | first1 = Benjamin | title = The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch | publisher = McFarland | page = 194 | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-0786454884 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p2szSoy5nQkC&pg=PA194 | postscript= . }}</ref>
<ref name="tv.com">{{Citation |title = Bryce Walton |work = tv.com |url = http://www.tv.com/people/bryce-walton/ |accessdate = 2013-02-25 |postscript = . |archive-date = 2016-03-08 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160308060418/http://www.tv.com/people/bryce-walton/ |url-status = dead }}</ref>
}}
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author |id=33100| name=Bryce Walton}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Bryce Walton |sopt=t}} * {{Librivox author |id=757}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walton, Bryce}} Category:1918 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Writers from Missouri Category:People from Harrison County, Missouri Category:American war correspondents of World War II Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II Category:California State University, Los Angeles, alumni Category:20th-century American writers Category:20th-century American male writers