Richard Sharpe Shaver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Sharpe Shaver

American writer

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1907

Place of Birth: Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1975

Profession: writer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Richard Sharpe Shaver (October 8, 1907 Berwick, Pennsylvania – November 5, 1975 Summit, Arkansas) was an American writer and artist. He achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories that were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily Amazing Stories), in which he claimed that he had had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
The controversy stemmed from the claim by Shaver, and his editor and publisher Ray Palmer, that Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.
Shaver's stories were promoted by Ray Palmer as "The Shaver Mystery". During the last decades of his life, Shaver devoted himself to "rock books"—stones that he believed had been created by the advanced ancient races and embedded with legible pictures and texts.
He produced paintings based on the rock images and photographed the rock books extensively, as well as writing about them.
Posthumously, Shaver has gained a reputation as an artist and his paintings and photos have been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere.