Richard F. Challis was Steve's father.
He wrote many articles, short stories, poems and several books. In his lifetime, many of his shorter pieces were published, but none of his books. More recently, Steve, with the approval of his brothers and sister, has published some of his father's books.
Here is a link to the Richard F. Challis Amazon page. And here is a link to Richard F Challis's book "When Angels Travel"'s website.