Phyllis gottlieb biography

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom, poet, short story writer, novelist (born at Toronto 25 May 1926, died there 14 Jul 2009).
Phyllis Gotlieb, born in Toronto on May 25, 1926, to parents who owned a movie theatre, received her BA (1948) and MA (1950) from the University of Toronto.

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SF writer Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, died July 14, 2009.

Born Phyllis Fay Bloom on May 25, 1926 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Gotlieb was sometimes called the founder of Canadian science fiction, and in the ’60s and ’70s she was the only prominent English-language Canadian SF writer. She was a founding member of SF Canada, and her many honors include an Aurora Award for lifetime achievement (1982).

Her first SF story was “A Grain of Manhood” in Fantastic in 1959, and she published short fiction widely into this century. Some of her stories are gathered in Son of the Morning and Other Stories (1983) and Blue Apes (1995). She edited Tesseracts2 (1987), an anthology of Canadian SF, with Douglas Barbour.

Gotlieb’s first novel Sunburst appeared in 1964; one of Canada’s most important SF prizes is called the Sunburst Award in her honor. Other works include her Sven Dhalgren books: O Master Caliban! (1976) and Heart of Red Iron (1989); her Starcats series: Nebula-nominated novella “Son of the Morning” (1972) and novels including A

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Author: Phyllis Gotlieb Author Record # 835
Legal Name: Gotlieb, Phyllis Fay Bloom
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthdate: 25 May 1926
Deathdate: 14 July 2009
Language: English
Webpages:SFE, thecanadianencyclopedia.ca, Wikipedia-EN
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Gotlieb, Phyllis (1926 - 2009)

Biography

Phyllis Gotlieb, born in Toronto on May 25, 1926, to parents who owned a movie theatre, received her B.A. (1948) and M.A. (1950) from the University of Toronto. She published five volumes of poetry from 1964 to 2002, one of them nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 1964 she published the first of nine novels of science fiction, Sunburst, after which the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is named. Three sf series followed: the Dahlgren, 1976-89 (O Master Caliban! and Heart of Red Iron), the Ungrukh or Starcats, 1980-85 (A Judgment Of Dragons, Emperor, Swords and Pentacles, The Kingdom of Cats), and the GalFed, 1998-2002 (Flesh and Gold, Violent Stars, Mindworld). A Judgment Of Dragons won the Aurora award in 1982. She has also published a mainstream novel, Why Should I Have all the Grief (1969), and two volumes of short stories, notably Blue Apes (1995). Gotlieb edited Tesseracts 2 in 1987, and Transversions Poetry from 1995 to 2000. She lived in Toronto with her husband, Calvin,