Donald Keith was a pseudonym for authors

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(1888–1972) and Keith Monroe (1915–2003). They are best known for their series of stories in the

Time Machine series The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for young adults, published between 1959 and 1989 in ''Boys' Life'' magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. The Polaris Patrol visited the future ...

, which were originally published in ''

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'' magazine between 1959 and 1989. Some of the stories were combined into two books, ''Mutiny in the Time Machine'' (1963) and ''Time Machine to the Rescue'' (1967). A few stories later in the series were written by Keith Monroe alone. The works of Donald Keith were often Keith Monroe's earlier attempts, to which his father, Donald Monroe, helped him. As a result, both men amalgamated their forenames into the pen name "Donald Keith" in order to credit both.''Boys' Life'' September 1989, "Pedro the Mail Burro" Donald Keith also contributed stories to ''

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'' and ''

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Time Machine stories in ''Boys' Life''

Key to "Byline" : DK – stated author is Donald Keith, the duo : KM – stated author is Keith Monroe, the son

Published books

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References

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External links

List of Time Machine stories
compiled by William S. Higgins * *
Keith Monroe
at the ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' American science fiction writers American short story writers Science fiction shared pseudonyms American male short story writers American male novelists American children's writers {{US-sf-writer-stub