Robert Newman

Robert Newman (1909-1988) was an American writer born in New York City who began his career as a pioneer of early radio drama. He served as chief writer for Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Murder at Midnight, forerunners of later suspense anthology shows, and was a founding member of the Radio Writers Guild, later the Writers Guild of America. In 1944 he led the radio campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election. Newman turned to writing books for children in 1973, becoming best known for a series of Victorian London mysteries following two teenage detectives, Andrew Tillett and Sara Wiggins, alongside Inspector Wyatt. He also wrote fantasy novels, including Merlin's Mistake and its sequel The Testing of Tertius, and books drawn from myth and folklore such as Grettir the Strong. He was married to the writer Dorothy Crayder and spent his final years in Stonington, Connecticut.