C. Herb Williams
The source of the birthday is unknown. "After making his living for nearly twenty years as a free-lance photojournalist, C. Herb Williams says he is experiencing a mid-life crisis, one that has caused him to focus his creative energies on writing fiction. His first SF story sale was to <em>If</em> in 1954, and after a long gap, he sold another tale to <em>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</em> in 1980." The quotation above is from the intro to his story in <em>Amazing Stories</em> in 1991. This may be the same "C. Herb Williams" that wrote the 1976 book "Indian Treaties: American Nightmare". That book's intro says Williams "is a full-time writer with a background including nine years as a daily newspaper reporter, another eight in the public relations department of a large natural resource oriented corporation. He has published with major outdoor publications and many newspapers. He authored a cover story in Fishing Tackle Trade News on the subject of 'Indian Treaties — Sportsmen's Nightmare'." That book includes a picture of C. Herb Williams. There are also articles by "C. Herb Williams" in <em>The American Legion Magazine</em>, Jan 1976, <em>Writer's Digest</em>, Aug. 1981, and the Asbury Park New Jersey paper (1985 and 1991; one with a photo credited to him), so if these are all the same person, he may have been local to Asbury Park, NJ.