John Norman is a psudonym for John Frederick Lange, Jr., Ph.D. He was born on June 3, 1931 in Chicago Illinois. He married Bernice L. Green on the January 14, 1956 and has three children. He earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska in 1953 and received his Masters from the University of Southern California in 1957. He earned a PhD in 1963 from Princeton.