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Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984), American writer who wrote science fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories and a handful of mystery novels.

Joel Townsley Rogers was born during 1896 in Sedalia, Missouri. He studied at Harvard University. He joined the navy air corps and became one of its first few hundred flyers. He went through training in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and though he was aching to go overseas (and in fact managed to get himself in a position to do so, had the armistice not intervened) ... the Great War seemed an adventure to the young men of that generation! ... he was sent to Pensacola as a flight instructor instead. The planes he flew and taught others to fly were tiny pontooned biplanes made (he said in one of his letters) of spruce and linen.

     After the war he made use of his experiences and vivid imagination to sell short stories to the raft of pulp magazines that sold in the 1920s and 1930s for fifteen or twenty cents.Rogers, T. N. R.. "Joel Townsley Rogers ". June 23, 2010 .

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