Alfred Coppel
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Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921–May 30, 2004) was an American author. He was born in Oakland California. He began his long career in 1947 and became one of the most prolific pulp writers of the 1950s and 1960s, writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. In 1974 he had a best seller with the suspense thriller Thirty-Four East about the Arab-Israeli crisis Using the pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman he wrote a galactic empire story called The Rebel of Rhada. A similar story under his own name can be found in Brian Aldiss's collection Galactic Empires.