Author
Frederik Pohl
26 November 1919 – 2 September 2013
Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them. He married his first wife in 1940. In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945. He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945. In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf. In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine. In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines. In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books. He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984. He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Foundation’s Friends
1989
Martin H. Greenberg, Pamela Sargent, Robert Silverberg, Edward Wellen, Harry Turtledove, Connie Willis, George Alec Effinger, Mike Resnick, Barry N. Malzberg, Sheila Finch, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, George Zebrowski, Robert Sheckley, Edward D. Hoch, Hal Clement, Harry Harrison, Orson Scott Card
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
1978
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn
Galaxy
1980
Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, William Tenn, Robert Sheckley, William Morrison, Jerome Bixby, Margaret St. Clair, Alan Arkin, Zenna Henderson, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, Algis Budrys, Jim Harmon, Allan Danzig, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, James Tiptree, Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Varley, Alfred Bester, H. L. Gold, Genevieve Collins Linebarger
Science Fiction Hall of Fame--Volume Two B
1973
Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, Jack Vance, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred
The New Hugo winners, Volume II
1991
Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Hugo Winners, Volume Three
1977
Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., Harlan Ellison, George R. R. Martin
Treasury of American Horror Stories
1985
Frank Mcsherry, Frank D. McSherry, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl
Science Fiction. The Great Years
1973
Carol Pohl, Frederik Pohl, Eric Frank Russell, William Tenn, Raymond Z. Gallun, Fredric Brown, James MacCreigh, Cyril M. Kornbluth, H. L. Gold
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
1964
Frederik Pohl, Algis Budrys, Ray Bradbury, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Lester del Rey, Frederic Brown, R. A. Lafferty, Zenna Henderson, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, Keith Laumer, Fritz Leiber, Margaret St. Clair, Damon Knight
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
1968
Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Algis Budrys, Hal Clement, David A. Kyle, Keith Laumer, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen
