Fisher successfully sold stories, novels, and film and TV scripts for fifty years, from the 1930s through the 1970s, an impressive record few twentieth century writers can claim. He never stopped writing and publishing novels. Most of Fisher’s pulp writing appeared under the name Steve Fisher, but he used the pen names Stephen Gould and Grant Lane, particularly for early novels. He wrote for magazines, including the pulps, long after he had to for income. He remained active in film after the height of his prestige as a screenwriter in the 1940s and 1950s. He became very active in television work from the 1950s to the end of his life. Fisher grew up around Los Angeles, where his mother was an actress. He was a teen when he sold his first tale to a magazine. He wrote stories for US Navy at a penny a word. His earliest pulp writing is “Panama Passion,” Zippy (September 1933), and “Shanghai Sue” for the first issue of Spicy Mystery (July 1934). Despite the name Spicy Mystery, Fisher’s Shanghai Sue was actually a romance tale, a genre Fisher would perfect in just three or four years so he could publish them at will in the highest paying slick markets like Cosmopolitan, Liberty, and Esquire.
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