Arthur Leo Zagat, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American writer
Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1896
Date of Death: 03-Apr-1949
Profession: novelist, science fiction writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Arthur Leo Zagat
- Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949) was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction.
- Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally.
- Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner.
- During the last two decades of his life, Zagat wrote short stories prolifically.
- About 500 pieces appeared in a variety of pulp magazines, including Thrilling Wonder Stories, Argosy, Dime Mystery Magazine, Horror Stories, Operator No.
- 5 and Astounding.
- Zagat also wrote the "Doc Turner" stories that regularly appeared in The Spider pulp magazine throughout the 1930s, the "Red Finger" series that ran in Operator #5 and wrote for Spicy Mystery Stories as "Morgan LaFay".
- A novel, Seven Out of Time, was published by Fantasy Press in 1949, the year he died.
- His more well known series is probably the Tomorrow series of 6 novelettes from Argosy (1939 thru 1941) collecting into 2 volumes by Altus Press in 2014. Zagat was a graduate of City College who served in the US military in Europe during World War I.
- After the war, he studied at Bordeaux University, then graduated from Fordham Law School.
- He taught writing at New York University.
- In 1941, he was elected to the first national executive committee for the Authors League pulp writers' section.
- During World War II, he held an executive position in the Office of War Information.
- After that war, Zagat was active in organizing writers' workshops and other assistance for hospitalized veterans.Zagat was married to Ruth Zagat; the couple had one daughter, Hermine.
- He died of a heart attack on April 3, 1949, at his home in the Bronx.
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