Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom in his last years of high school at Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.
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He attended The Webb School, then at Culleoka, Tennessee.
He attended Webb’s Academy in Culleoka, Tennessee, graduated from Lehigh University in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1887, and took a post-graduate course in mining engineering.
It was founded in 1955 by Robert Webb (1919–2005), grandson of Webb School of Bell Buckle founder Sawney Webb.