Thomas Eugene DeWeese was born in Rochester, Indiana. He also wrote science fiction, Gothic, and young adult novels and was best known for his Star Trek novels. He worked for General Motors' Delco Electronics Division as an electronics technician from 1954 to 1959 and as a technical writer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1959 to 1974 before he became a full-time freelance writer. With Robert Stratton Coulson he wrote novels based on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. under the joint pseudonym 'Thomas Stratton'. He is the creator of 'Joe Karns', a reporter becoming involved in science fiction adventures (with Robert Stratton Coulson).