Educated at the University of Chicago, Meek received an Associate degree before getting his BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1915.He then studied for a year at the University of Wisconsin. When America entered World War I, Meek became an ordnance expert and, following the war, served as Chief of Small Arms Ammunition Research. In 1928, he published his first story, Taming Poachers, In Field & Stream Magazine. He became an active and popular SF writer during the next decade, contributing to many of the SF pulp magazines, such as Astounding Stories. He then turned his efforts to children's literature and published some twenty novels over the next twenty years. His works were published under the name Captain S. P. Meek and for a time as Major until 1933 when he became Colonel S.P. Meek. During the Second World War, he served as Chief Publications Officerof the Ordnance Department, and retired as a colonel in 1947. His works include Stolen Brains (1930), The Cave of Horror (1930), The Black Lamp (1931), Island Born (1937), Arctic Bride (1944), Pat: The story of a Seeing-Eye Dog (1947), Red: A Trailing Blood Hound(1951), Bellfarm Star: The Story of a Pacer (1955) and Pierre of the Big Top (1956). |
