The paper circle

29 June 1908 – 16 March 1992

Bruno Fischer was born in Germany in 1908, the son of a grocer. His family emigrated to the United States in 1913. After high school, he attended the Rand School of Social Sciences, which was established by the American Socialist Party. Fischer married in 1934. He was a sports reporter, rewrite man and police reporter for the Long Island Daily Press from 1929-1931. He began writing fiction full-time in 1936, and went on to write hundreds of mystery, detective, and weird menace stories for just about every magazine under the sun, using both his own name and the pseudonymous Russell Gray. Fischer’s first hardcover mystery novel, So Much Blood, was published by Greystone Press in 1939. His pr…