Kordvayner Smith (1913-1966) - a pseudonym of doctor Paul Myron Anthony Laynbardzher. Laynbardzher taught oriental studies at John Hopkins's University, at School of modern international researches (School of Advanced International Studies) and also cooperated with the American prospecting community concerning methods of promotion and conducting war of nerves. According to the biography given on the website of the Arlington national cemetery from 1937 to 1946 Laynbardzher taught at the Lyyuka University. In the 1940th years Laynbardzher has published three novels under other pseudonyms: Felix Forrest (a hint on his Chinese name of Lin Ba Lo meaning "the Wood of Ardent Pleasure") and Carmichael Smith. He was a spy, the trickster, the secret agent and the impressive theorist, the author of the fundamental work "War of nerves" ("Psychological Warfare").At the age of six years as a result of accident Laynbardzher has gone blind on one eye. According to the daughter writer Rozana Hart (www.cordwainer-smith.
com), this circumstance has aggravated his consciousness of own otherness and has probably laid the foundation for a subject of the pain and sufferings which has passed through all his creativity. Personal problems of Laynbardzher and his interest in war of nerves have induced the writer to be engaged in studying of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. All this and also enthusiasm for Christian philosophy have left a noticeable mark on the works Kordvaynera by Smith. Laynbardzher's psychobiography which Alan Elms made for twenty five years will soon be issued.