Please answer the following question: Facts:   - period: 1949 -- 1976    - death date: 1980    - genre: science fiction      - pseudonym: henderson starke    - birth date: 1925    - name: kris ottman neville    - nationality: united states    - birth place: st. louis    - occupation: novelist , short story writer , journalist   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kris ottman neville .
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kris ottman neville -lrb- 9 may 1925 -- 23 december 1980 -rrb- was an american science fiction writer from california .he was born in st. louis .his first science fiction work was published in 1949 .his most famous work , the novella `` bettyann '' , is considered an underground classic of science fiction .