Born: 1908 April 29 in Brisbee, Arizona Territory, United States
Died: 2006 November 10 in Portales, New Mexico, United States
Biography: Jack Williamson was a science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" (especially after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988).
By the 1930s he was an established genre author, and the teenaged Isaac Asimov was thrilled to receive a postcard from Williamson, whom he had idolized, which congratulated him on his first published story and offered "welcome to the ranks". Williamson remained a regular contributor to the pulp magazines but did not achieve financial success as a writer until many years later.
An unfavorable review of one of his books, which compared his writing to that of a comic strip, brought Williamson to the attention of The New York Sunday News, which needed a science fiction writer for a new comic strip. Williamson wrote the strip Beyond Mars (1952–55), loosely based on his novel Seetee Ship, until the paper dropped all comics.
Beginning 1954 and continuing into the 1990s, Williamson and Frederik Pohl wrote more than a dozen science fiction novels together, including the series Jim Eden, Starchild, and Cuckoo. Williamson continued to write as a nonagenarian and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards during the last decade of his life, by far the oldest writer to win those awards.
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Name:
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Jack Williamson
Type: Pen Name
Other Names:
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John Stewart Williamson
Type: Name at Birth
Given name: John Stewart Family name: Williamson
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Publication Title: Marvel Stories (magazine) - Role: writer - Year: 1941
Employer Name : Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc.
Work Title: The Iron God
Notes: Marvel Stories Vol.2 #3 April, 1941 Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc.
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