Lloyd Biggle, Jr., was born in Waterloo, Iowa. After winning a Purple Heart with oak-leaf cluster in World War II, he took an A.B. with high distinction at Wayne University (now Wayne State) in 1947 and a Ph.D. in music at the University of Michigan in 1953. He taught the literature and history of music there from 1948 to 1951 and has been self-employed since then. He married Hedwig Janiszewski, a violin teacher, in 1947; they now live in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Biggle has contributed over fifty stories to science-fiction and mystery magazines; many of his books have been republished in Europe. Theodore Sturgeon has praised his work, and The Metallic Muse (1972) and Monument (1974) are included in Pfeiffer and de Bolt's list of basic science-fiction titles in Barron's Anatomy of Wonder . Frequently a science-fiction convention participant, Biggle has promoted the scholarly study of science fiction and attacked the superficial treatment it sometimes...