Keith Monroe

Keith Monroe
Born(1915-08-22)August 22, 1915
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
DiedAugust 30, 2003(2003-08-30) (aged 88)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Other namesDonald Keith, Dale Colombo, Rice E. Cochran
OccupationsAuthor and Boy Scout leader
Known forTime Machine stories

Keith Monroe (22 August 1915 – 30 August 2003) was an American author of children's science fiction and of books and magazine articles about Boy Scouting.

Monroe attended Stanford University and UCLA. He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, for advertising and public relations firms, and for North American Rockwell. At times, he was a full-time freelance writer.

His work appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker, |Harper's, Blue Book, Galaxy, Argosy, Boys' Life, and Scouting. His pseudonyms included Donald Keith, Rice E. Cochran, and Dale Colombo.