Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them. He married his first wife in 1940. In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945. He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945. In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf.
In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine. In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines. In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books. He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984. He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois.
Frederik Pohl
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American science fiction writer and editor (1919-2013)
Born | 26 November 1919 |
Died | 2 September 2013 |
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Frederik Pohl
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American science fiction writer and editor (1919-2013)
Born | 26 November 1919 |
Died | 2 September 2013 |
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American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, English Science fiction, Fiction, general, Science Fiction, Science fiction, american, Fiction in English, Short stories, English Short stories, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, short stories (single author), History and criticism, Science fiction, history and criticism, American Science Fiction, American fiction, American literature, Exploration, History, Science fiction, American, Short Stories, Short stories, american, horror, American Short storiesPlaces
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Hugh Morgan, William Harker, Adam Greenlaw, Amos Deigan, Baby Hortense, Buck Owens, Burt Robeson, Clayton Gilman, Craig Boardman, David, Donna Stigman, Edward Hollis, Elizabeth Taylor, Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Eve Tobin, Frederik Pohl, Frederik Pohl (1919-), George Kirk, Grace, He Who Walks Behind the Rows, Henry Richardson, Humankind, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Isaac RenfrewID Numbers
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- Elton Andrews
- Frederik Pohl
- Frederick Pohl
- Fredrik Pohl
- Frederic Pohl
- F. Pohl
- Frédérik Pohl
- FREDERIK POHL
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