 His son Cliff Temple was born in 1947.In the early- and mid-1950s Temple was a full-time writer who regularly sold to magazines but found less success with novels, though he did sell the Martin Magnus series for young readers and a non-fiction book on space travel.However, in spite of being voted "Author of the Year" for 1957 by the reader of "Nebula Science Fiction" the income from these markets was not sufficient to support his family so he returned to full-time employment in 1957.