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Matthews, Patricia

Patricia Anne Klein (née Ernst) Brisco Matthews was born on July 1, 1927 in San Fernando, California, United States - December 7, 2006 in Prescott, Arizona. She was a writer of gothic, romance and mystery novels.

Patricia Anne Klein Ernst was born on July 1, 1927 in San Fernando, California, the daughter of Roy Oliver Ernst and Gladys Gable. Her mother enrolled her in the famous Meglin Kiddies school, but she recorded only two of her songs professionally for one demo tape. She studied at California State University, Los Angeles, where she worked as secretary to the General Manager of Associated Students by the California State College.

On 21 December 1946 she married Marvin Owen Brisco, they had two sons: Michael Arvie and David Roy. By 1961, the marriage ended in divorce. Focused on her writing career, she met the writer Clayton Matthews in a local writers' group. After Matthews divorced his first wife, he and Patricia married on 3 November 1972 and lived near San Diego.

She wrote her first historical romance in 1975 and she became a hugely popular writer under her second married name, Patricia Matthews, and with consecutive N.Y. Times best-selling books she earned the sobriquet “America’s First Lady of Historical Romance”. Prolific during her entire life she wrote Gothic, Romance and Mystery novels, plays, and three children’s books.

She collaborated with her second husband, Clayton Matthews, on romance and mystery (suspense) novels; they were called "the hottest couple in paperbacks." She also collaborated with Denise Hrivnak as Denise Matthews.

Matthews started to write poetry, juvenile books, a play, fantasy and mystery short stories, which she signed under different names: Patricia Ernst, P.A. Brisco and Pat A. Brisco. Using the names Patty Brisco and Pat Brisco, she wrote gothic novels.

When the market for gothic novels softened, at the suggestion of the Matthews' agent, Jay Garon, she began to write romance novels under her second married name, Patricia Matthews. She and her husband also collaborated on several romance and suspense novels using the pseudonyms Laura Wylie and Laurie Wylie. She and her husband wrote five Casey Farrell mystery novels together, and she wrote three on her own, the Thumbprint Mysteries, set in the American Southwest. With Denise Hrivnak, she also wrote under the pseudonym Denise Matthews.

In 1989 they moved to Prescott, Arizona where they were involved in local theater productions and even produced a play of their own. Her husband Clayton died on 25 March 2004. Patricia died on December 7, 2006 in the Brisco family home in Prescott, Arizona.

Awards: 1983 Reviewers Choice Awards for Best Historical Gothic; 1986-87 Affaire de Coeur Silver Pen Readers Award

Bibliography

As P.A. Brisco: Harold Jensen's Hope Chest, 1959

As Patty Brisco: Horror at Gull House, 1969; Merry's Treasure, 1969; The Crystal Window, 1973; House of Candles, 1973; Mist of Evil, 1976; Raging Rapids, 1978; Too Much In Love, 1979.

As Pat A. Brisco: The Other People, 1970

As Pat Brisco: The Carnival Mystery, 1974; Campus mystery, 1978

As Patricia Matthews: Love's Avenging Heart, 1976; Dance of Dreams, 1983; Love Forever More, 1977; Love's Wildest Promise, 1977; Love's Daring Dream, 1978; Love's Pagan Heart, 1978; Love's Golden Destiny, 1979; Love's Magic Moments, 1979; Love's Bold Journey, 1980; Love's Raging Tide, 1980; Love's Sweet Agony, 1980; Tides of Love, 1981; Embers of Dawn, 1982; Flames of Glory, 1982; Gambler in Love, 1984; Tame the Restless Heart, 1985; Thursday and the Lady, 1987; Enchanted, 1987; Mirrors, 1988; Oasis, 1988; Sapphire, 1989; The Dreaming Tree, 1989; The Death of Love, 1990; The Unquiet, 1991; Dead Man Riding, 1999; Death in the Desert, 1999; Secret of Secco Canyon, 1998; Rendezvous at Midnight, 2004.

Poems: Love's Many Faces, 1979.

Single novels with Clayton Matthews: Midnight Whispers, 1981; Empire, 1982

Midnight Lavender, 1985.

Casey Farrell Series with Clayton Matthews: The Scent of Fear, 1992; Vision of Death, 1993; Taste of Evil, 1994; Sound of Murder, 1994; Touch of Terror, 1995.

Anthologies in collaboration: On Wings of Magic, 1994 (with Andre Norton and Sasha Miller),

As Laura Wylie: The Night Visitor, 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Matthews

McIntyre , Vonda N.

McIntyre was foremost among a legion of new female science-fiction authors in the early 1970s inspired by humanist writers such as Ursula K Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and Samuel Delany.

McIntyre was born on 28 August 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Vonda (nee Keith) and Harrell Neel McIntyre. The family moved regularly, with Vonda growing up in Nahant, Massachusetts; Syracuse, New York; Rockville, Maryland; and The Hague in the Netherlands, before they finally settled in Bellevue, Washington, in 1961.

Growing up reading Sci-Fi, In her mid-teens, McIntyre had written screenplays based on her favorite TV shows – The Man From UNCLE and Star Trek. She sold her first short stories in 1969, and in the summer of the following year attended the Clarion writers’ workshop at Clarion State College, Pennsylvania, where one of her instructors was Joanna Russ.

She was one of the first Clarion graduates (1970) to become a successful professional. She organized the Clarion/West Writers Workshop and was writer-in-residence for similar groups.

Inspired by her experience, and with the aid of Robin Scott Wilson, founder of the Clarion writers’ workshop, McIntyre established Clarion West writers’ workshop in Seattle and helped run it for three years (1971-73), with Le Guin as one of the tutors.

She studied in Seattle and attended the University of Washington, earning a BS in biology but leaving in 1971, part of the way through her Ph.D. graduate course in genetics, to take up writing.

In 2008, she was one of the co-founders of Book View Café, a publishing cooperative set up by a group of primarily fantasy and sci-fi authors to publish new books and reprint titles and ebooks, which now has 55 authors on its roster.

In February, McIntyre was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She returned home and completed work on a new novel, Curve of the World, set in ancient Crete. She died on 1 April 2019 at the age of 70.

Selected works:

Her short story Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand came out of a 1972 Clarion West writing assignment to meld a story out of two randomly picked words – one pastoral and the other technological. It won the Nebula short story award in 1973.

The Exile Waiting was her first novel (1975). McIntyre wrote it when she lived at Le Guin’s isolated cabin in Oregon. The novel is about a young female thief trying to escape a dystopian society on a far future Earth. It was selected by the Science Fiction Book Club.

Dreamsnake (1978). With this novel, she became the second woman to win the Nebula award and the third to win the Hugo award for best novel. Dreamsnake is the story of a young healer, Snake, who uses genetically modified serpents to deliver healing venom; a third serpent – the dreamsnake – is used when the patient is incurable. An error in trust leads to the death of her dreamsnake and Snake struggles to function fully as a healer. Over the course of Snake’s journey to find a new dreamsnake, the novel explores the interpersonal relationships (not always traditional) of various communities, child abuse, fertility control, and the emotional impact on Snake, who is feared by the people she heals almost as much as death. McIntyre also adapted Dreamsnake as a screenplay.

The best of her early short stories, including the award-nominated Wings, The Mountains of Sunset, The Mountains of Dawn, Aztecs (which was expanded into the novel Superluminal), and Fireflood, were collected in Fireflood and Other Stories in 1979.

Invited to write a novel set in the universe of Star Trek, McIntyre produced The Entropy Effect (1981), which had its origins in an unproduced screenplay written when she was 18 and submitted shortly before the show was canceled. It was followed by novelizations of the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and another original novel, the New York Times bestseller Enterprise: The First Adventure (1986). McIntyre’s contributions to the Trek canon included giving Mr Sulu the name Hikaru, and naming Kirk’s mother Winona. She also wrote a Star Wars novel, The Crystal Star (1994).

Superluminal (1983). From the ocean's emerald depths, where whales and adapting humans live in harmony ... to the rigors of inter-dimensional travel, the universe is order and laws; the universe is hierarchies, evolution, and space… Now a young pilot with a new bionic heart, a man from a plague-ravaged world, and a beautiful diver from the sea are about to discover that their destinies—and their souls—are entwined. A voyage to a distant planet, a message in a crystal, an accident, and a love affair have suddenly cracked open the known order of the Universe. Two women and a man are caught up in a mystery, and now they are changing every world they travel in, and every life they touch!

Barbary (1986) is a young adult novel about an orphan girl sent to live on an orbiting research station. The author also adapted it for the big screen.

In 1994, McIntyre accepted a fellowship to the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project workshop, sponsored by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Studios. She spent that year in Los Angeles, in a screenwriting workshop, and working on two screenplays, Illegal Alien and The Moon and the Sun.

In 1997, she published The Moon and the Sun as a novel and won a second Nebula for best novel (beating George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones). It is an alternate history set in the court of Louis XIV, where the Sun King believes his immortality is assured if he devours the flesh of a certain sea creature. Caught by the explorer Yves de la Croix, Sherzad is no monster, but an intelligent sea-woman. She enthralls De la Croix’s sister, Marie-Josèphe, who defies all to free the captive. The book was filmed in 2014 as The King’s Daughter, with Pierce Brosnan and William Hurt in the cast, but its release was delayed in order to complete the film’s special effects. A new date has yet to be set.

Starfarer series is concerned with humanity’s expansion into the universe, first contact with an alien species, and, in the final title, efforts to join other alien cultures collectively known as civilization: Starfarers (1989), Transition (1991), Metaphase (1992) and Nautilus (1994).

Little Faces (2006), a Nebula award-nominated, is a far-future story of sentient spaceships, exploring how humans might deal with the immensities of interstellar space travel.

https://vondanmcintyre.net/

McKillip, Patricia

Patricia Anne McKillip was born on February 29, 1948. She is an author of fantasy and science fiction. She has been called "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy genre", and is notable for writing predominantly standalone fantasy novels. Her work has won her numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.

Patricia A. McKillip was born in Salem, Oregon. She grew up in Oregon, Great Britain, and Germany. She attended San Jose State University in California, where she received a B.A. in 1971 and a Master of Arts in English in 1973. McKillip is married to David Lunde, a poet.

McKillip's first publications were two short children's books, The Throme of the Erril of Sherill and The House on Parchment Street. Her first novel, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, was published in 1974, when she was only 26 years old, and won the World Fantasy Award in 1975.

McKillip's novels have included winners of the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and the Mythopoeic Award. In 2008, she was a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Most of her recent novels feature cover paintings by Kinuko Y. Craft.

On writing fantasy, McKillip has said, "The tropes of mythology and symbolism are the basics. It's like a notation in music; you can change it in really wacky ways, but the sound is always the same, the sound is always there. As long as we need these symbols, then the stories will be written. But if we destroy the old symbols, then we might just have to come up with new ones--who knows?"

Since 1994, McKillip's writing has comprised purely standalone novels. Scholar Brian Stableford described her as "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy genre", while critics Peter Nicholls and John Clute considered her "perhaps the most impressive author of fantasy story still active".

McKillip holds the record for the most Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards: fifteen nominations and four first places: Something Rich and Strange (1994), Ombria in Shadow (2002), Solstice Wood (2006), Kingfisher (2016).

Series

Quest of the Riddle-Master: The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), Heir of Sea and Fire (1977), Harpist in the Wind (1979)

Kyreol: Moon-Flash (1984), The Moon and the Face (1985)

Cygnet: The Sorceress and the Cygnet (1991), The Cygnet and the Firebird (1993)

Winter Rose: Winter Rose (1996), Solstice Wood (2006)

Novels

The House on Parchment Street (1973), The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), The Night Gift (1976), Stepping from the Shadows (1982), Fool's Run (1987), The Changeling Sea (1988), The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995), Song for the Basilisk (1998), The Tower at Stony Wood (2000), Ombria in Shadow (2002), In the Forests of Serre (2003), Alphabet of Thorn (2004), Od Magic (2005), The Bell at Sealey Head (2008), The Bards of Bone Plain (2010), Wonders of the Invisible World (2012), Kingfisher (2016).

Collections

To Weave a Web of Magic (2004) (with Claire Delacroix, Lynn Kurland and Sharon Shinn), Harrowing the Dragon (2005), Dreams of Distant Shores (2016).

Novellas

The Karkadann Triangle (2018) (with Peter S Beagle).

Anthologies containing stories by McKillip

Elsewhere Two (1982), Imaginary Lands (1985), Full Spectrum 2 (1989), Tales of the Witch World 3 (1990), Strange Dreams (1993), Christmas Forever (1993), Xanadu 2 (1994), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994), The Armless Maiden (1995), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995), Year's Best SF (1995), Sisters in Fantasy 2 (1996), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997), The Essential Bordertown (1998), Not of Woman Born (1999), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999), A Wolf At the Door (2000), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000).

Short stories

The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath (1982), The Old Woman and the Storm (1985), A Doorkeeper of Khaat (1989), Fortune's Children (1990), Lady of the Skulls (1993), The Snow Queen (1993), Xmas Cruise (1993), Transmutations (1994), The Lion and the Lark (1995), Wonders of the Invisible World (1995), The Witches of Junket (1996), Oak Hill (1998), A Gift to Be Simple (1999), Toad (1999), The Twelve Dancing Princesses (2000).

Awards

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1975): The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1975): The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Hugo Best Novel nominee (1980): Harpist in the Win

World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1980): Harpist in the Wind

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1990): The Changeling Sea

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1992): The Sorceress and the Cygnet

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1994): The Cygnet and the Firebird

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (1995): Something Rich and Strange

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1996): The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1997): Winter Rose

Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1997): Winter Rose

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1998): Song for the Basilisk

Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2002): The Tower at Stony Wood

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (2003): Ombria in Shadow

World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2003): Ombria in Shadow

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2004): In the Forests of Serre

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2005): Alphabet of Thorn

World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2006): Od Magic

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (2007): Solstice Wood

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2009): The Bell at Sealey Head

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2011): The Bards of Bone Plain

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (2017): Kingfisher

http://patriciamckillip.com/

Merril, Judith

Josephine Juliet Grossman was born in Boston, Massachusetts (21 January 1923) and died in Toronto, Canada (12 September 1997). She was an anthologist, critic, and author in Canada from 1968.

At the beginning of her career, she preferred the forename Judith, and became Judith Zissman by her first marriage; she began to use the surname Merril after marrying Frederik Pohl (1949-1953), and took Judith Merril as her legal name on becoming a Canadian citizen in 1973. She occasionally used the pseudonym Rose Sharon. 

Merril was associated with the Futurians fan group during and after World War Two. Her first published science fiction short story was "That Only a Mother" for Astounding in June 1948. Her best short stories, which usually feature protagonists passively caught up in world-changing events, and often hurt thereby, were ahead of their time. Her first novel, Shadow on the Hearth (1950; rev 1966), tells the story of a nuclear World War Three from the viewpoint of a suburban New York housewife; one of the very best stories of the nuclear Holocaust, it was televised as Atomic Attack. Merril began editing sf Anthologies in the early 1950s, but published very little fiction after 1960. 

She moved to Canada in 1968 for reasons both personal and political; hints of her openly tempestuous personal life, and of a long-held suspicion of American foreign policy that climaxed during the Vietnam years, appear in a fragmented memoir, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (2002), edited after her death by Emily Pohl-Weary, her granddaughter; it won a 2003 Hugo for Best Related Book. 

In 1970, soon after settling in Toronto, she donated her book collection to the Toronto Public Libraries; initially known as the Spaced Out Library, it comprised a spinal cord of central texts for what, after years of growth, was in 1991 renamed the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, located in the heart of the city. 

In 1997, she was honored by SFWA as Author Emeritus and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2013.

Works

Shadow on the Hearth (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1950) [hb/Edward Kasper]

Shadow on the Hearth (London: Compact Books, 1966) [rev of the above: pb/Keith Roberts and Langdon Jones]

Outpost Mars (New York: Abelard Press, 1952) with C M Kornbluth, writing together as Cyril Judd [first appeared May-July 1951 Galaxy as "Mars Child" hb/uncredited]

Sin in Space (New York: Beacon Books, 1961) with C M Kornbluth, writing together as Cyril Judd [rev vt of the above: in the publisher's Galaxy Science Fiction Novel series: pb/Robert Stanley]

Mars Child (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2014) [vt of the above: first appeared May-July 1951 Galaxy as "Mars Child": pb/Chesley Bonestell]

Gunner Cade (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952) with C M Kornbluth, writing together as Cyril Judd [hb/Paul Bacon]

Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, Massachusetts: The NESFA Press, 2008) [omni of the above three: hb/William K Hartmann]

The Tomorrow People (New York: Pyramid Books, 1960) [pb/Bob Schulz]

Collections and stories

Out of Bounds (New York: Pyramid Books, 1960) [coll: pb/Art Sussman]

Daughters of Earth (London: Victor Gollancz, 1968) [coll: assembling three novellas: hb/nonpictorial]

Survival Ship and Other Stories (Toronto, Ontario: Kakabeka Publishing Co, 1973) [coll: cut vt of the above: pb/Derek Carter]

The Best of Judith Merril (New York: Warner Books, 1976) [coll: pb/Gray Morrow]

Daughters of Earth and Other Stories (Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1985) [coll:

contents differ from Daughters of Earth above: pb/Jon Lomberg]

Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo Fiction of Judith Merril (Framingham, Massachusetts: The NESFA Press, 2005) [coll: hb/James Warhola]

Homecalling (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2013) [dos: title story only from the above: first appeared November 1956 Science Fiction Stories: pb/]

Exile from Space (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [novelette: ebook: first appeared November 1956 Fantastic Universe: na/]

Nonfiction

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Toronto, Ontario: Between the Lines, 2002) edited by Emily Pohl-Weary [nonfiction: pb/Zab Design and Typography]

The Merril Theory of Lit'ry Criticism (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2016) [nonfiction: coll: pb/]

The Merril Theory of Lit'ry Criticism (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2016) [nonfiction: coll: ebook: exp of the above: na/]

Works as editor

Year's Greatest/Best SF

UK editions may cut editorial matter but not, as a rule, stories; in the two-volume UK SF: The Best of the Best, however, one story is cut but the short introduction appears in both books.

S-F The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Gnome Press, 1956) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Ed Emshwiller as Emsh]

SF: '57: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Gnome Press, 1957) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/W I Van der Poel]

SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume (New York: Dell Books, 1957) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Richard Powers]

SF '58: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy (Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, 1958) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/W I Van der Poel]

SF The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 3rd Annual Volume (New York: Dell Books, 1958) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Richard Powers]

SF '59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy (Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, 1959) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/W I Van der Poel]

SF The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume (New York: Dell Books, 1959) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Richard Powers]

The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/H Lawrence Hoffman]

The Year's Best S-F: 5th Annual Edition (New York: Dell Books, 1960) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Richard Powers]

The Best of Sci-Fi 5 (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1966) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/]

The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/H Lawrence Hoffman]

6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (New York: Dell Books, 1961) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/John Van Zwienen]

The Best of Sci-Fi (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1963) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/John Van Zwienen]

The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Nick Musi]

7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (New York: Dell Books, 1963) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Ralph Brillhart]

The Best of Sci-Fi – Two (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1964) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/]

The 8th Annual of the Year's Best SF (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Lawrence Ratzkin]

8th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (New York: Dell Books, 1964) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Lawrence Ratzkin]

The Best of Sci-Fi No. 4 (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1965) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/]

The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Lawrence Ratzkin]

9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (New York: Dell Books, 1965) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Three Lions]

9th Annual S-F (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1967) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/]

10th Annual Edition The Year's Best SF (New York: Delacorte Press, 1965) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/G Ziel]

10th Annual SF (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1968) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/]

11th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (New York: Delacorte Press, 1966) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/G Ziel]

11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (New York: Dell Books, 1967) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/G Ziel]

SF: The Best of the Best (New York: Delacorte Press, 1967) [anth: selected from first 5 volumes above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/nonpictorial]

SF: The Best of the Best Part One (London: Mayflower, 1970) [anth: first half of the above with 1 story cut: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Josh Kirby]

SF: The Best of the Best Part Two (London: Mayflower, 1970) [anth: second half of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Josh Kirby]

SF 12 (New York: Delacorte Press, 1968) [anth: Year's Greatest/Best SF: hb/Carl Smith]

The Best of Sci-Fi 12 (London: Mayflower, 1970) [anth: vt of the above: Year's Greatest/Best SF: pb/Josh Kirby]

Individual titles as editor

Shot in the Dark (New York: Bantam Books, 1950) [anth: pb/Herman E Bischoff]

Beyond Human Ken (New York: Random House, 1952) [anth: hb/H Lawrence Hoffman]

Beyond Human Ken (London: Grayson and Grayson, 1953) [anth: cut version of the above: with six of twenty-one stories omitted: hb/E B Mudge-Marriott]

Selections from Beyond Human Ken (New York: Pennant Books, 1954) [anth: rev with different omissions: vt of the above: pb/Bergen]

Tomorrow the Stars (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1952) with Robert A Heinlein and others [anth: Merril main editor: Heinlein alone credited: other editors included Frederik Pohl: hb/Richard Powers]

Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time (New York: Random House, 1954) [anth: hb/H Lawrence Hoffman]

Human? (New York: Lion Books, 1954) [anth: pb/R DeSaint]

Galaxy of Ghouls (New York: Lion Library, 1955) [anth: pb/B Thomas]

Off the Beaten Orbit (New York: Pyramid Books, 1959) [anth: vt of the above: pb/Richard Powers]

England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968) [anth: hb/Richard Merkin]

The Space-Time Journal (London: Panther Books, 1972) [anth: cut vt of the above: pb/uncredited]

Tesseracts (Vancouver, British Columbia: Porcépic Books/Tesseract, 1985) [anth: initiating the Tesseracts series: Tesseracts: pb/Ron Lightburn]

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/merril_judith

Morrison, Toni

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931 - August 5,2019). She wrote mostly adult literary fiction, but often incorporated elements of the supernatural in her writing, such as ghosts.

Morrison was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama, and moved north with her family as a child. She was a homemaker and a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. George Wofford grew up in Cartersville, Georgia. When Wofford was about 15, a group of white people lynched two African-American businessmen who lived on his street. Soon after the lynching, George Wofford moved to the racially integrated town of Lorain, Ohio, in the hope of escaping racism and securing gainful employment in Ohio's burgeoning industrial economy. He worked odd jobs and as a welder for U.S. Steel. Traumatized by his experiences of racism, in a 2015 interview, Morrison said her father hated whites so much he would not let them in the house. When Morrison was about two years old, her family's landlord set fire to the house in which they lived, while they were home, because her parents could not afford to pay rent. 

Morrison's parents instilled in her a sense of heritage and language through telling traditional African-American folktales, ghost stories, and singing songs. Morrison also read frequently as a child; among her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy.

She became a Catholic at the age of 12  and took the baptismal name Anthony (after Anthony of Padua), which led to her nickname, Toni.

Attending Lorain High School, she was on the debate team, the yearbook staff, and in the drama club.

She graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English and earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. 

After her divorce and the birth of her son Slade in 1965, Morrison began working as an editor for L. W. Singer, a textbook division of publisher Random House, in Syracuse, New York. Two years later, she transferred to Random House in New York City, where she became their first black woman senior editor in the fiction department.

In that capacity, Morrison played a vital role in bringing Black literature into the mainstream. One of the first books she worked on was the groundbreaking Contemporary African Literature (1972), a collection that included work by Nigerian writers Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and South African playwright Athol Fugard. She fostered a new generation of Afro-American writers, including poet and novelist Toni Cade Bambara, radical activist Angela Davis, Black Panther Huey Newton, and novelist Gayl Jones, whose writing Morrison discovered. She also brought to publication the 1975 autobiography of the outspoken boxing champion Muhammad Ali, The Greatest: My Own Story. In addition, she published and promoted the work of Henry Dumas, a little-known novelist and poet who in 1968 had been shot to death by a transit officer in the New York City Subway.

Among other books that Morrison developed and edited is The Black Book (1974), an anthology of photographs, illustrations, essays, and documents of Black life in the United States from the time of slavery to the 1920s. Random House had been uncertain about the project but its publication met with a good reception. Alvin Beam reviewed the anthology for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writing: "Editors, like novelists, have brain children – books they think up and bring to life without putting their own names on the title page. Mrs. Morrison has one of these in the stores now, and magazines and newsletters in the publishing trade are ecstatic, saying it will go like hotcakes."

Morrison had begun writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard University who met to discuss their work. She attended one meeting with a short story about a Black girl who longed to have blue eyes. Morrison later developed the story as her first novel, The Bluest Eye, getting up every morning at 4 am to write, while raising two children on her own.

In 1983, Morrison left publishing to devote more time to writing. She taught English at two branches of the State University of New York (SUNY) and at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus. In 1984, she was appointed to an Albert Schweitzer chair at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Morrison's first play, Dreaming Emmett, is about the 1955 murder by white men of Black teenager Emmett Till. The play was performed in 1986 at the State University of New York at Albany, where she was teaching at the time. Morrison was also a visiting professor at Bard College from 1986 to 1988.

In 1987, Morrison published her most celebrated novel, Beloved. It was inspired by the true story of an enslaved African-American woman, Margaret Garner, whose story Morrison had discovered when compiling The Black Book. Garner had escaped slavery, but was pursued by slave hunters. Facing a return to slavery, Garner killed her two-year-old daughter, but was captured before she could kill herself. Morrison's novel imagines the dead baby returning as a ghost, Beloved, to haunt her mother and family. Beloved was a critical success and a bestseller for 25 weeks. Beloved is the first of three novels about love and African-American history, sometimes called the Beloved Trilogy.

Before the third novel of the Beloved Trilogy was published, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In her Nobel lecture, Morrison talked about the power of storytelling.

In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities." Morrison's lecture, entitled "The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations," began with the aphorism: "Time, it seems, has no future." She cautioned against the misuse of history to diminish expectations of the future. Morrison was also honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, which is awarded to a writer "who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work."

The third novel of her Beloved Trilogy, Paradise, about citizens of an all-Black town, came out in 1997. The following year, Morrison was on the cover of Time magazine, making her only the second female writer of fiction and second Black writer of fiction to appear on what was perhaps the most significant U.S. magazine cover of the era.

Also in 1998, the movie adaptation of Beloved was released, directed by Jonathan Demme and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey, who had spent ten years bringing it to the screen. Winfrey also stars as the main character, Sethe, alongside Danny Glover as Sethe's lover, Paul D, and Thandiwe Newton as Beloved. In 1996, television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey selected Song of Solomon for her newly launched Book Club, which became a popular feature on her Oprah Winfrey Show. An average of 13 million viewers watched the show's book club segments. As a result, when Winfrey selected Morrison's earliest novel The Bluest Eye in 2000, it sold another 800,000 paperback copies. Winfrey selected a total of four of Morrison's novels over six years, giving Morrison's novels a bigger sales boost than they got from her Nobel Prize win in 1993. The novelist also appeared three times on Winfrey's show.

Morrison continued to explore different art forms, such as providing texts for original scores of classical music. She collaborated with André Previn on the song cycle Honey and Rue, which premiered with Kathleen Battle in January 1992, and on Four Songs, premiered at Carnegie Hall with Sylvia McNair in November 1994.

Morrison returned to Margaret Garner's life story, the basis of her novel Beloved, to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner. Completed in 2002, with music by Richard Danielpour, the opera was premièred on May 7, 2005, at the Detroit Opera House with Denyce Graves in the title role.

Love, Morrison's first novel since Paradise, came out in 2003. In 2004, she put together a children's book called Remember to mark the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 that declared racially segregated public schools to be unconstitutional.

From 1997 to 2003, Morrison was an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. In June 2005, the University of Oxford awarded Morrison an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. 

In the spring 2006, The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best work of American fiction published in the previous 25 years, as chosen by a selection of prominent writers, literary critics, and editors.

In November 2006, Morrison visited the Louvre museum in Paris as the second in its "Grand Invité" program to guest-curate a month-long series of events across the arts on the theme of "The Foreigner's Home".

Morrison's novel A Mercy, released in 2008, is set in the Virginia colonies of 1682. 

From 1989 until her retirement in 2006, Morrison held the Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Though based in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton, Morrison did not regularly offer writing workshops to students after the late 1990s, a fact that earned her some criticism. Rather, she conceived and developed the Princeton Atelier, a program that brings together students with writers and performing artists. Together the students and the artists produce works of art that are presented to the public after a semester of collaboration.

Inspired by her curatorship at the Louvre Museum, Morrison returned to Princeton in the fall 2008 to lead a small seminar, also entitled "The Foreigner's Home".

On November 17, 2017, Princeton University dedicated Morrison Hall (a building previously called West College) in her honor.

In May 2010, Morrison appeared at PEN World Voices for a conversation with Marlene van Niekerk and Kwame Anthony Appiah about South African literature and specifically van Niekerk's 2004 novel Agaat.

Morrison wrote books for children with her younger son, Slade Morrison, who was a painter and a musician. Slade died of pancreatic cancer on December 22, 2010, aged, when Morrison's novel Home (2012) was half-completed.

In May 2011, Morrison received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Rutgers University–New Brunswick. During the commencement ceremony, she delivered a speech on the "pursuit of life, liberty, meaningfulness, integrity, and truth."

In 2011, Morrison worked with opera director Peter Sellars and Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré on Desdemona, taking a fresh look at William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. The trio focused on the relationship between Othello's wife Desdemona and her African nursemaid, Barbary, who is only briefly referenced in Shakespeare. The play, a mix of words, music and song, premiered in Vienna in 2011.

Her son Slade Morrison died of pancreatic cancer on December 22, 2010, when Morrison was halfway through writing her novel Home. She stopped work on the novel for a year or two before completing it; that novel was published in 2012.

In August 2012, Oberlin College became the home base of the Toni Morrison Society, an international literary society founded in 1993, dedicated to scholarly research of Morrison's work.

Morrison's eleventh novel, God Help the Child, was published in 2015. It follows Bride, an executive in the fashion and beauty industry whose mother tormented her as a child for being dark-skinned, a trauma that has continued to dog Bride.

Morrison was a member of the editorial advisory board of The Nation, a magazine started in 1865 by Northern abolitionists.

Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York City, on August 5, 2019, from complications of pneumonia. She was 88 years old.

A memorial tribute was held for Morrison on November 21, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. At this gathering she was eulogized by, among others, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Michael Ondaatje, David Remnick, Fran Lebowitz, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Edwidge Danticat. The jazz saxophonist David Murray performed a musical tribute.

Morrison was not afraid to comment on American politics and race relations. In writing about the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton, she claimed that since Whitewater, Bill Clinton was being mistreated in the same way Black people often are.

In the Democratic primary contest for the 2008 presidential race, Morrison endorsed Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, though expressing admiration and respect for the latter. When he won, Morrison said she felt like an American for the first time. 

After the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Morrison wrote an essay, "Mourning for Whiteness," published in the November 21, 2016 issue of The New Yorker. In it she argues that white Americans are so afraid of losing privileges afforded them by their race that white voters elected Trump, whom she described as being "endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan", in order to keep the idea of white supremacy alive.

Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison did not identify her works as feminist. She said: “I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things."

The Toni Morrison Papers are part of the permanent library collections of Princeton University, where they are held in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Morrison's decision to offer her papers to Princeton instead of to her alma mater Howard University was criticized by some within the historically black colleges and universities community.

In 2019, a resolution was passed in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, to designate February 18, her birthday, as "Toni Morrison Day." Additional legislation was introduced to also proclaim that date as "Toni Morrison Day" throughout the State of Ohio. The legislation, HB 325, was passed by the Ohio House of Representatives on December 2, 2020, and signed into law by Governor Mike DeWine on December 21, 2020.

Morrison was interviewed by Margaret Busby in a 1988 documentary film by Sindamani Bridglal, entitled Identifiable Qualities, shown on Channel 4.

Morrison was the subject of a film titled Imagine – Toni Morrison Remembers, directed by Jill Nicholls and shown on BBC One television on July 15, 2015, in which Morrison talked to Alan Yentob about her life and work.

In 2016, Oberlin College received a grant to complete a documentary film begun in 2014, The Foreigner's Home, about Morrison's intellectual and artistic vision, explored in the context of the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre. The film's executive producer was Jonathan Demme. It was directed by Oberlin College Cinema Studies faculty Geoff Pingree and Rian Brown, and incorporates footage shot by Morrison's first-born son Harold Ford Morrison, who also consulted on the film.

In 2019, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. People featured in the film include Morrison, Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sanchez, and Walter Mosley, among others.

Awards and nominations

1977: National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon, 1977: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1982: Ohio Women's Hall of Fame inductee, 1988: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1988: Helmerich Award, 1988: American Book Award for Beloved, 1988: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for Beloved, 1988: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, 1988: Frederic G. Melcher Book Award for Beloved, 1988: Honorary Doctor of Laws at University of Pennsylvania, 1989: Honorary Doctor of Letters at Harvard University, 1993: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993: Commander of the Arts and Letters, Paris, 1994: Condorcet Medal, Paris, 1994: Rhegium Julii Prize for Literature, 1996: Jefferson Lecture, 1996: National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 1997: Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Gustavus Adolphus College, 2000: National Humanities Medal, 2002: 100 Greatest African Americans, list by Molefi Kete Asante, 2005: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 2005: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from University of Oxford, 2008: New Jersey Hall of Fame inductee, 2009: Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement, 2010: Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, 2010: Institute for Arts and Humanities Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts and Humanities from the Pennsylvania State University, 2011: Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction, 2011: Honorary Doctor of Letters at Rutgers University Graduation Commencement, 2011: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Geneva, 2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013: The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal awarded by Vanderbilt University, 2013: Honorary Doctorate of Literature awarded by Princeton University, 2013: PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Home, 2013: Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, 2014: Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Book Critics Circle, 2016: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, 2016: The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry (The Norton Lectures), Harvard University, 2016: The Edward MacDowell Medal, awarded by the MacDowell Colony, 2018: The Thomas Jefferson Medal, awarded by The American Philosophical Society, 2020: National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, 2020: Designation of "Toni Morrison Day" in Ohio, to be celebrated annually on her birthday, 2021: Featured on "Cleveland is the Reason" mural in downtown Cleveland, 2023: Featured on a USPS Forever stamp, designed by art director Ethel Kessler with photography by Deborah Feingold.

Bibliography

Novels: 1970 - The Bluest Eye, 1973 - Sula, 1977 - Song of Solomon, 1981 - Tar Baby, 1987 - Beloved, 1992 - Jazz, 1997 - Paradise, 2003 - Love, 2008 - A Mercy, 2012 - Home, 2015 - God Help the Child.

Children’s books (with Slade Morrison): 1999 - The Big Box, 2002 - The Book of Mean People, 2004 - Remember: The Journey to School Integration, 2007 - Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake?, 2009 - Peeny Butter Fudge, 2010 - Little Cloud and Lady Wind, 2014 - Please, Louise.

Short fiction: 1983 - “Recitatif” (A hardback book version, with an introduction by Zadie Smith, was published in February 2022 - US: Knopf; UK: Chatto & Windus), "Sweetness". 2015 - The New Yorker. Vol. 90.

Plays: performed in 1982 “N'Orleans: The Storyville Musical” with Donald McKayle, 1986 - “Dreaming Emmett”, 2011 - Desdemona.

Poetry: 2002 - Five Poems.

Libretto: Margaret Garner (first performed May 2005).

Non-fiction: Foreword, The Black Photographers Annual Volume 1, edited by Joe Crawford (1973), Foreword and Preface, The Black Book edited by Harris, Levitt, Furman and Smith. Random House (1974), Foreword, Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. Pantheon Books (1992), Co-editor, Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case (1997), Remember: The Journey to School Integration (2004), Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (2007), What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn C. Denard (2008), Editor (2009), Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word, The Origin of Others – The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Harvard University Press (2017), Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture: With Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision. Edited by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2019), The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, Meditations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (2019).

Articles: "Introduction." Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. [1885] The Oxford Mark Twain, edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. xxxii–xli.

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Moore, C. L. 

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Moore was a science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women of the XX century to write in these genres, and her work paved the way for many other female speculative fiction writers.

She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic. She left college during the Great Depression to work as a secretary at the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis.

The Vagabond, a student-run magazine at Indiana University, published three of her stories when she was a student there. The three short stories, all with a fantasy theme and all credited to "Catherine Moore", appeared in 1930/31. Her first professional sales appeared in pulp magazines beginning in 1933. Her decision to publish under the name "C. L. Moore" stemmed not from a desire to hide her gender, but to keep her employers at Fletcher Trust from knowing that she was working as a writer on the side.

Her early work included two significant series in Weird Tales, then edited by Farnsworth Wright. One features the rogue and adventurer Northwest Smith wandering through the Solar System; the other features the swordswoman/warrior Jirel of Joiry, one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction. Both series are sometimes named for their lead characters. One of the Northwest Smith stories, "Nymph of Darkness" (Fantasy Magazine (April 1935); expurgated version, Weird Tales (Dec 1939) was written in collaboration with Forrest J Ackerman.

The most famous Northwest Smith story is "Shambleau", which was also Moore's first professional sale. It originally appeared in the November 1933 issue of Weird Tales, netting her $100, and later becoming a popular anthology reprint.

Her most famous Jirel story is also the first one, "Black God's Kiss", which was the cover story in the October 1934 issue of Weird Tales, subtitled "the weirdest story ever told" (see figure). Moore's early stories were notable for their emphasis on the senses and emotions, which was unusual in genre fiction at the time.

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter under the impression that "C. L. Moore" was a man. They soon collaborated on a story that combined Moore's signature characters, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry: "Quest of the Starstone" (1937).

Moore and Kuttner got married in 1940, and most of her work from 1940 to 1958 (Kuttner's death) was written by the couple collaboratively. They were prolific co-authors under their own names, and often using the joint pseudonyms C. H. Liddell, Lawrence O'Donnell, or Lewis Padgett — most commonly the latter, a combination of their mothers' maiden names. Moore still occasionally wrote solo work during this period, including the frequently anthologized "No Woman Born" (1944). A selection of Moore's solo short fiction work from 1942 through 1950 was collected in 1952's Judgement Night. Moore's only solo novel, Doomsday Morning, appeared in 1957.

The vast majority of Moore's work in the period, though, was written as part of a very prolific partnership. Working together, the couple managed to combine Moore's style with Kuttner's more cerebral storytelling. They continued to work in science fiction and fantasy, and their works include two frequently anthologized sci-fi classics: "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (February 1943), the basis for the film The Last Mimzy (2007), and Vintage Season (September 1946), the basis for the film Timescape (1992). As "Lewis Padgett" they also penned two mystery novels: The Brass Ring (1946) and The Day He Died (1947).

Moore's work also appeared in Astounding Science Fiction magazine throughout the 1940s. Several stories written for that magazine were later collected in her first published book, Judgment Night (1952) One of them, the novella "No Woman Born" (1944), was to be included in more than 10 different science fiction anthologies including The Best of C. L. Moore.

Included in that collection were "Judgment Night" (first published in August and September 1943), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss; "The Code" (July 1945), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread; "Promised Land" (February 1950) and "Heir Apparent" (July 1950), both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the Solar System; and "Paradise Street" (September 1950), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

After Kuttner's death in 1958, Moore continued teaching her writing course at the University of Southern California. As "Catherine Kuttner", she had a brief career as a scriptwriter for Warner Bros from 1958 to 1962, writing episodes of the westerns Sugarfoot, Maverick, and The Alaskans, as well as the detective series 77 Sunset Strip, all between 1958 and 1962.

Upon marrying Thomas Reggie (who was not a writer) in 1963, she ceased writing entirely.

Moore was the author guest of honor at Kansas City, Missouri's fantasy and science fiction convention BYOB-Con 6, held over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend in May 1976. In a 1979 interview, she said that she and a writer friend were collaborating on a fantasy story, and how it could possibly form the basis of a new series. But nothing was ever published.

In 1981, Moore received two annual awards for her career in fantasy literature: the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, chosen by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention, and the Gandalf Grand Master Award, chosen by vote of participants in the World Science Fiction Convention. Thus she became the eighth and final Grand Master of Fantasy, sponsored by the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, in partial analogy to the Grand Master of Science Fiction sponsored by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon and a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership, including Robert Bloch, George Clayton Johnson, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Norman Spinrad, A. E. van Vogt, and others, as well as many visiting writers and speakers.

Moore developed Alzheimer's disease, but that was not obvious for several years. She had ceased to attend the meetings when she was nominated to be the first woman Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America; the nomination was withdrawn at the request of her husband, Thomas Reggie, who said the award and ceremony would be at best confusing and likely upsetting to her, given the progress of her disease. She died on April 4, 1987, at her home in Hollywood, California.

Awards: 1978 - Fritz Leiber Award, 1980 - World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement Award, 1981 - Gandalf Grand Master Award, 1998 - Posthumous induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, 2004 - Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, 2019 - Retro Hugo Award for best Novelette for the year 1944.

Selected works

Earth's Last Citadel (with Henry Kuttner; 1943 and reprinted in the July 1950 edition of Fantastic Novels).

The Dark World (credited to Henry Kuttner, but believed by many critics to be a collaboration, 1946).

Vintage Season (novella written with Henry Kuttner, as "Lawrence O'Donnell"; 1946). It was filmed in 1992 as Timescape.

The Mask of Circe (with Henry Kuttner; 1948, Illustrated by Alicia Austin; 1971).

Beyond Earth's Gates (1949).

Judgment Night (stories, 1952).

Shambleau and Others (stories, 1953).

Northwest of Earth (stories, 1954).

No Boundaries (with Henry Kuttner; stories, 1955).

Doomsday Morning (1957).

Jirel of Joiry (Paperback Library, 1969); Black God's Shadow (Donald M. Grant, 1977)—the five Jirel stories collected; the latter a limited edition with color plates, signed, numbered, and boxed.

The Best of C. L. Moore, edited by Lester Del Rey (Nelson Doubleday, 1975)—includes a biographical introduction by Lester Del Rey, which is carefully noncommittal about the influence of her personal life on her writing, and an autobiographical afterword by Moore.

Black God's Kiss (Paizo Publishing, 2007)—the five Jirel stories collected.

Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (Paizo Publishing, 2008)—the thirteen Northwest Smith stories collected.

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