Editing Keith Laumer (section)

{{Short description|American science fiction writer (1925–1993)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Keith Laumer
| image = KLaumerEB.jpg
| caption = Laumer {{circa|1966}}
| pseudonym = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1925|6|9}}
| birth_place = [[Syracuse, New York]], United States<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Keith_Laumer|title=Summary Bibliography: Keith Laumer|website=isfdb.org}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1993|1|23|1925|6|9}}
| death_place = 
| occupation = Novelist, short story author
| genre = [[Science fiction]]
| movement = 
| notableworks = ''[[Bolo (self-aware tank)|Bolo]]'', ''[[Jame Retief|Retief]]''
| website = 
}}
[[File:Fantastic 196102.jpg|thumb|right|Laumer's novel ''Worlds of the Imperium'' was serialized in ''[[Fantastic (magazine)|Fantastic]]'' in 1961.]]
[[File:If 196201.jpg|thumb|right|Laumer's "The Yillian Way", a "[[Jame Retief|Retief]]" story, took the cover of the January 1962 issue of ''[[If (magazine)|If]]'']]
[[File:Amazing stories 196207.jpg|thumb|right|Laumer's novel ''A Trace of Memory'' was serialized in ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' in 1962.]]
[[File:Fantastic 196212.jpg|thumb|right|Laumer's "Cocoon" was the cover story for the December 1962 issue of ''[[Fantastic (magazine)|Fantastic]]'']]
[[File:Galaxy 196306.jpg|thumb|right|Laumer's novelette "End as a Hero" took the cover of the June 1963 issue of ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'']]

'''John Keith Laumer''' ({{birth date|1925|6|9}} – {{death date|1993|1|23}}) was an American [[science fiction]] author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the [[United States Air Force]] and a diplomat in the [[United States Foreign Service]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSGOTZKpZk0C&pg=PA155 |title=Contemporary Science Fiction Authors |first=Robert |last=Reginald |publisher=[[Wildside Press]] |year=2009 |isbn=9781434478580}}</ref> His older brother [[March Laumer]] was also a writer, known for his adult reinterpretations of the [[Land of Oz]] (also mentioned in Laumer's ''The Other Side of Time'').<ref>Paul S. Ritz, "Remembering March Laumer," ''[[The Baum Bugle]]'', Vol. 44 No. 1 (Spring 2000), p. 11.</ref> Frank Laumer, their youngest brother, is a historian and writer.