Ray was an author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". 

He worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel "The Girl in the Golden Atom" published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson. Ray wrote in 1922 " Time... is what keeps everything from happening at once"
 

He used these alternate names:  Ray P. Shotwell, Gabriel Wilson, Ray King