Arnold Federbush

Arnold Federbush (1935–1993) was the author of two 1970s science fiction novels: The Man who Lived in Inner Space (1973) and Ice! (1978).

Federbush was born in New York, the son of a clothing manufacturer who had been a colleague in Palestine of Zeev Jabotinsky. He attended UCLA's film school, where his classmates included Francis Ford Coppola and Noel Black. His ambition was to be a screenwriter. After some years working as a film editor for Black and others, and finding that pitches for screenplays were (at the time) better received if they were based on already published books, he wrote his two novels, both of which were successful enough to be translated into many European languages and to remembered fondly to this day by fans of ecologically-themed science fiction.

Federbush was a lifelong fitness enthusiast, and a non-smoking member of the original Muscle Beach crowd. However, he was diagnosed with apparently spontaneous lung cancer after it had fatally spread to his liver. He died with his third novel - about spontaneous human combustion - unfinished.