Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (1929-2004) an American author. In 1974 he had a best seller with the suspense thriller Thirty-Four East about the Arab-Israeli crisis, however he had a long career writing for a variety of pulps and later slick publishers. Using the pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman he wrote a galactic empire story called The Rebel of Rhada. A similar story under his own name can be found in Brian Aldiss's collection Galactic Empires.

External links

• A biography of Coppel in German (http://www.epilog.de/Person/C/Coo_Coq/Coppel_Alfred_1921.htm)