- Date de naissance
- Date de décès2 septembre 2013 · Palatine, Illinois, États-Unis (insuffisance respiratoire)
- Nom de naissanceFrederik George Pohl Jr.
- Frederik Pohl est né le 26 novembre 1919 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis. Il était scénariste et producteur. Il est connu pour Romulus, Le tunnel sous le monde (1969) et Tales of Tomorrow (1951). Il était marié à Elizabeth Anne Hull, Carol M. Ulf Stanton, Judith Merril, Dorothy LesTina et Leslie Perri. Il est mort le 2 septembre 2013 dans l'Illinois, États-Unis.
- ConjointsElizabeth Anne Hull(1984 - 2 septembre 2013) (son décès)Carol M. Ulf Stanton(1953 - 1983) (divorcé, 3 enfants)Judith Merril(1949 - 1952) (divorcé, 1 enfant)Dorothy LesTina(août 1945 - 1947) (divorcé)Leslie Perri(août 1940 - 1944) (divorcé)
- Famous American science fiction novelist, editor and literary agent. A lifelong friend of Isaac Asimov and Cyril M. Kornbluth, with whom he collaborated on such popular novels as "The Space Merchants" (1953). He was barely into his twenties when he became the first editor of the magazines "Astounding Stories" and "Super Science Stories" and was later respected as editor of "Galaxy Science Fiction" and of its companion publications, "If," "Worlds of Tomorrow," and "Magabook."
- Won Nebula Awards for his novels "Man Plus" and "Gateway".
- Won Hugo Awards for his novel "Gateway" and for his short stories "The Meeting" and "Fermi and Frost"
- Guest of honor at UNICON I science-fiction convention (University of Maryland, April 11-13, 1975).
- In August 2009, Mr. Pohl received an Honorary Degree from Brooklyn Technical High School. He attended the school for three years some 75 years before but did not graduate.
- There are well understood terms of engagement between the people who write for publication, on one hand, and the academics and critics who discuss it, on the other. Writers write. Then the academics explain what the writer has written and the critics explain how it could have been written so much better.
- If you read science fiction, nothing ever takes you by surprise. [in a 1987 interview with the Washington Post]
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