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H Schmitz James: - "James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911 - April 18, 1981) was a German-born American science fiction writer who was born in Hamburg, Germany to American parents. Schmitz was schooled at a Hamburg Realgymnasium and grew up speaking both English and German. The family spent WWI in the United States before returning to Germany. Schmitz went to business school in Chicago in 1930, then moved to a journalism correspondence course. He returned to Germany to work for his father's company after being unable to find work due to the Great Depression. Schmitz resided in different German towns, where he worked for the International Harvester Company, until his family relocated to the United States shortly before World War II broke out in Europe. Schmitz worked as an aerial photographer for the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific during WWII. After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a trailer manufacturing company until 1949, when they sold it. He moved to California after the war and remained there until his death. Schmitz died of congestive lung failure in 1981, following a five-week hospital stay in Los Angeles. Betty Mae Chapman Schmitz, his wife, survived him."