Meek sold his first fiction story, 'Taming Poachers', to Field and Stream, where it appeared in September 1928. Meek's 'The Red Peril' was the cover story in the September 1929 issue of Amazing Stories Writing career He retired a colonel in 1947, at which point he became a full-time writer. He served as Chief, Small Arms Ammunition Research, in 1923-1926, and Chief Publications Officer, Ordnance Dept., in 1941-1945.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Meek joined the military as a chemist and ordnance expert. He continued his education at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1916) and MIT (1921–1923).

Meek received his associate degree from University of Chicago in 1914 and his bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Alabama in 1915.

He also published one story as Sterner St. He published much of his work first as Capt. Paul Meek (Apin Chicago, Illinois – June 10, 1972) was an American military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. The result is a perceptive and practical book-one that will change how you see the world and transform what you do at work, at school, and at home.Sterner St. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it's no longer 'Always Be Closing'), explains why extraverts don't make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an 'off-ramp' for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds.Īlong the way, Pink describes the six successors to the elevator pitch, the three rules for understanding another's perspective, the five frames that can make your message clearer and more persuasive, and much more. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling.

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Stolen Brains by S.P. Meek