Theodore Sturgeon
Novelist, Author
1918 – 1985
Who was Theodore Sturgeon?
Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories.
Sturgeon's most famous work may be the science fiction More Than Human, an expansion of "Baby Is Three". More Than Human won the 1954 International Fantasy Award as the year's best novel and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby is Three" number five among the "Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two deceased and two living writers.
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- Born
- Feb 26, 1918
Staten Island - Also known as
- Ted Sturgeon
- E. Waldo Hunter
- Edward Hamilton Waldo
- Frederick R. Ewing
- E. Hunter Waldo
- Billy Watson
- Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon
- Ted
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Dorothe Fillingame
(1940 - 1945) - Mary Mair
(1949 - 1951) - Marion McGahan
(1953 - )
- Dorothe Fillingame
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Eugene
- Died
- May 8, 1985
Eugene
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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