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About Lafferty: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola, Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty (a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties) and Julia Mary Burke, a. | feedboo is The Six Fingers of Time Lafferty Raphael Aloysius Published 1960 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Source http etext 31663 1 About Lafferty Raphael Aloysius Lafferty November 7 1914 - March 18 2002 was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language metaphor and narrative structure as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels In a Green Tree a history book The Fall of Rome and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties and Julia Mary Burke a teacher the youngest of five siblings. His first name Raphael derived from the day he was expected to be born on the Feast of St. Raphael . At the age of 4 his family moved to Perry Oklahoma. He attended night school at the University of Tulsa for two years from 1933 mostly studying math and German but left. He then began to work for a Clark Electric Co. in Tulsa Oklahoma and apparently a newspaper as well during this period 1939-1942 he attended the International Correspondence School. R. A. Lafferty lived most of his life in Tulsa with his sister Anna Lafferty. Lafferty served for four years in the . Army during World War II. He enlisted in 1942. Affter training in Texas North Carolina Florida and California he was sent to the South Pacific Area serving in Australia New Guinea Morotai and the Philippines. When he left the Army in 1946 he had become a 1st Sergeant serving as a staff sergeant and had received an Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. He never married. Lafferty did not begin writing until the 1950s but he eventually produced thirty-two novels and more than two hundred short stories most of them at least nominally science fiction. His first published story was The Wagons in New Mexico Quarterly Review in 1959. His first published science