Henry Beam Piper was born on March 23, 1904 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA. Some sources report his name as Horace, a confusion he generated himself. It seems that Piper didn’t like his first name so he wrote under the name H. Beam Piper and said the H. stood for Horace. During his life, tragically ended with his suicide, he wrote many science fiction stories in the Terro-Human and the Paratime cycles.