Robert Tralins
| Robert Tralins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 April 1926 |
| Died | 20 May 2010 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Years active | 1960s - 2010 |
Robert Tralins (April 28, 1926 – May 20, 2010) was a prolific author/novelist whose career began in the 1960s and continued until his death. He is best known for his first-hand research and story collections featured on the television shows Miracles and Other Wonders and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.[1]
Biography
Tralins first became known when he wrote Pleasure Was My Business, the tell-all memoirs of Madam Sherry, an infamous, Miami, Florida, madam.[1] The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida.[1] The ban was later reversed in a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. (See TRALINS v. GERSTEIN, 378 U.S. 576 (1964)). In an internationally publicized lawsuit filed by ex-King Farouk of Egypt claiming never to have been in Miami, Tralins produced documentary evidence that he had indeed been, and won a $750,000 libel lawsuit and judgment against him.[2]
Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O'Shea.[1] He is best known for his novels Squaresville Jag, The Cozmozoids, Android Armageddon, Black Pirate, Panther John, the Miss From S.I.S. series, the Valentine Flynn novels, a dozen mind, body, spirit books, and numerous historical novels. And for a series of papaerback novels in which a James Bond-like character, Jack Lund, defeats drug lords, terrorists, and evil-intentioned occult groups.[1]
Selected Published Works
- How to Be a Power Closer in Selling (1960)
- Dynamic Selling (1961)
- Pleasure Was My Business (1963)
- Squaresville Jag (1965)
- The Chic Chick Spy (1966)
- The Cosmozoids (1966)
- What a Way to Go! (1966) Valentine Flynn No. 1 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding (1966)
- Operation Boudoir (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 2 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Win with Sin (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 3 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- The Nymph Island Affair (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 4 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Invasion of The Nymphomaniacs (1967) Valentine Flynn No. 5 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- Clairvoyant Strangers (1968)
- The Topless Kitties (1968) Valentine Flynn No. 6 (writing as Sean O'Shea)
- ESP forewarnings (1969)
- Weird People of the Unknown (1969)
- Black Brute (1969)
- Runaway Slave (1969)
- Children of the Supernatural (1969)
- The Hidden Spectre (1970)
- Slave King (1970)
- Supernatural Strangers (1970)
- Clairvoyance in Women (1970)
- Black Pirate (1971)
- Clairvoyant Women (1972)
- Black Stud (1973)
- Android Armageddon (1974)
- Rampage (1974)
- Slaves Revenge (1974)
- Super-natural Warnings (1974)
- Black Roots (1977)
- Buried Alive (1977)
- Life After Death (1977)
- Panther John (1980)
- Chains (1981)
- Flight Signals (1990)
- Signal: Intruder (1991)
- Signal: Blackbird (1992)
- Deadshot (1993)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Meacham, Andrew (25 May 2010). "Robert Tralins wrote banned and bordello books, as well as stories that inspired 'Beyond Belief'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ↑ "'Madam' says Farouk was prize patron". The Dispatch. UPI. 23 June 1962. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
External links and sources
- Robert Tralins at the Internet Movie Database
- Robert Tralins official web site (down)
- List of works by Robert Tralins at Fantastic Fiction