Author
26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985
**Theodore Sturgeon** (Ted) was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter." He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940. That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter. He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951. In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels. In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960. In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise. He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive. His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death. He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon.
Bibliography
30 books
1980
Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward Bryant, Davis Grubb, Robert Aickman, Karl Edward Wagner, Joyce Carol Oates, T. E. D. Klein, Gene Wolfe, Theodore Sturgeon, Ramsey Campbell, Clifford D. Simak, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Bloch, Edward Gorey, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Grahan Wilson, Stephen King
1987
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Smythe Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick
1981
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Winston S. Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Truman Capote, Fredric Brown, Evan Hunter, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Russell, Robert Phillips, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Slesar, Adobe James, Robert Silverberg, John Lutz, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur Porges, Elizabeth Morton, Jack Dann, Theodore Cogswell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Robert Scheckley, Barry N. Malzberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, Arthur L. Samuels, Edward D. Hoch, William F. Nolan
![The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories] cover](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14411044-L.jpg)
1985
Robert Silverberg, H. L. Gold, L. Sprague De Camp, C. L. Moore, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Peter S. Beagle, J. G. Ballard, R. A. Lafferty, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Tanith Lee, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, Lucius Shepard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang
1989
Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Ross Rocklynne, A. E. van Vogt, Lester del Rey, Frederic Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, C. L. Moore, A. Bertram Chandler, T.L. Sherred, Jack Williamson
1973
Ben Bova, H. G. Wells, Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Williamson, Others, Michael David Axtell, L J Ganser, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Boyett, Graham Halstead, Oliver Wyman, Cary Hite, Josh Hurley, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Clark, Roger, Fred Berman
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
1963
Isaac Asimov, Conklin, Groff, Poul Anderson, Alan Bloch, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, Charles Muñoz, Cleve Cartmill, Peter Grainger, James Causey, Arthur C. Clarke, Mildred Clingerman, Roger D. Aycock, Arthur Feldman, Jack Finney, Stuart Friedman, Lawrence L. LeShan, Donald A. Wollheim, Marion Gross, Robert A. Heinlein, Albert Hernhuter, H. B. Hickey, Wayland Hilton Young, Damon Knight, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Jack Lewis, John D. MacDonald, Avro Manhattan, Winston K. Marks, John P. McKnight, Lion Miller, Alan Nelson, Alan Edward Nourse, Peter Phillips, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Frank M. Robinson, Edward G. Robles Jr., Eric Frank Russell, James H. Schmitz, Howard Schoenfeld, Margaret St. Clair, Robert Sheckley, Walt Sheldon, Evelyn E. Smith, Will Stanton, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, A. E. van Vogt, Ralph Williams, S. Fowler Wright, Karen Anderson
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
1991
Lilian Jackson Braun, Roy Vickers, Fred Hamlin, Mary Reed, Theodore Sturgeon, Patricia Moyes, Hugh B. Cave, Gary Erickson, Margaret Maron, Edward D. Hoch, Joyce Harrington, Lillian De La Torre, Edgar Allan Poe, James Holding, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell
2011
Otto Penzler, W. B. Seabrook, David A. Riley, Hugh B. Cave, Chet Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Lisa Tuttle, Karen Haber, Michael Marshall Smith, Vivian Meik, Guy de Maupassant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dale Bailey, Henry Kuttner, Edgar Allan Poe, Yvonne Navarro, Charles Birkin, Geoffrey A. Landis, Graham Masterton, Jack Darcy, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Kevin J. Anderson, Richard Laymon, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thorp McClusky, Mary A. Turzillo, Mort Castle, Henry S. Whitehead, Peter Berresford Ellis, Thomas Burke, Anthony Boucher, Gahan Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Seabury Quinn, Francis Marion Crawford, Ralston Shields, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, John H. Knox, Uel Key, Theodore Sturgeon, Day Keene, Kilworth, Garry, Edith Jacobson, Ejler Jacobson, Richard Matheson, Christian Matheson, Michael Swanwick, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert E. Howard, Scott Edelman, August Derleth, Mark Schorer, Stephen King, Arthur J Burks, Theodore Roscoe
1969
Peter Haining, Keith Roberts, A. E. van Vogt, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Brunner
1982
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Alan Dean Foster, Richard Matheson, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague De Camp, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Anvil, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Brian W. Aldiss, G. Harry Stine, Andre Norton, Gordon R. Dickson, Evan Hunter, William F. Nolan, Eric Frank Russell, Robert F. Young, Katherine MacLean, Joseph Willard Schutz, Anne McCaffrey, Jack Sharkey, Ray Bradbury, Piers Anthony, H. G. Wells, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, Rog Phillips, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Fontenay, Alexei Panshin, H. L. Gold, Raymond E. Banks, James E. Gunn, Fred Saberhagen, Bob Shaw, Richard E. Peck, Theodore Sturgeon, Chad Oliver, George H. Smith, Jerome Bixby, Suzette Haden Elgin, Clifford D. Simak, William Sambrot, Harry Harrison, A. Bertram Chandler, L. J. Stecher Jr., Theodore Cogswell
1954
Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Jerome Bixby, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Ray Bradbury, Lester del Rey, Alfred Bester, Kurt Vonnegut, James H. Schmitz, Jack Williamson, Algis Budrys, H. L. Gold, Richard Wilson, Peter Phillips, Fletcher Pratt, Fredric Brown, Philip José Farmer
1983
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Eando Binder, Robert Bloch, H. L. Gold, Don A. Stuart, Lester del Rey, John Taine, L. Sprague De Camp, Henry Kuttner, Milton A. Rothman, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Nelson Bond, Joseph E. Kelleam, William Temple, Jack Williamson, Willard E. Hawkins, Fritz Leiber, Robert Arthur, Ross Rocklynne, Oscar Jerome Friend, Harry Bates, P. Schuyler Miller, A. E. van Vogt, C. L. Moore
1994
Peter Haining, Mary Shelley, Jane Webb, William Maginn, Herman Melville, Ronald Ross, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Fred T. Jane, W. C. Morrow, J. E. Preston Muddock, E. E. Kellett, Harle Oren Cummins, Merrick, Leonard, Robert S. Carr, Theodore LeBerthon, Henry M. Milner, Francis Edwards Faragoh, John L. Balderston, William James Hurlbut, Robert Muller, Fritz Leiber, Jimmy Sangster, H.P. Lovecraft, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Hervey, Michael Hervey, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Bloch, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison
1968
Peter Haining, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov
1988
Isaac Asimov, Charles Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Poul Anderson, Charles V. de Vet, Katherine MacLean, Walter M. Miller Jr., Frederik Pohl, Frank M. Robinson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Philip José Farmer
1979
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Otto O. Binder, Robert Bloch, H. L. Gold, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, John Taine, L. Sprague De Camp, A. E. van Vogt, C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Milton A. Rothman, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Nelson S. Bond, Joseph E. Kelleam, William F. Temple, Jack Williamson
![The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories] cover](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9273477-L.jpg)
1983
Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Dunsany, A. Merritt, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague De Camp, Henry Kuttner, Anthony Boucher, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K. Le Guin
1967
Lee Wright, Richard G. Sheehan, Cornell Woolrich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Fielding Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, J. P. Brennan, Stanley Ellin, D. K. Broster, Jane Rice, William F. Nolan, Harold R. Daniels, Theodore Sturgeon, Irvin Faust
1975
Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Robert Bloch, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Hugo Gernsback, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Willy Ley, Frank R. Paul, E. E. Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, E. Mayne Hull
1982
Isaac Asimov, Janet Asimov, John Stallings, L. Sprague De Camp, Ogden Nash, Robert Hillyer, Russell Baker, Alan Edward Nourse, Alan Nelson, Jack C. Haldeman, Sherwood Springer, Katherine MacLean, Lion Miller, Gerald Jonas, Norman Kagan, D. F. Jones, Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert Grossbach, Theodore Sturgeon, George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, Ben Bova, A. J. Deutsch , Alfred Bester, Jesse F. Bone, Randall Garrett, Sansoucy Kathenor, Avram Davidson, Robert Sheckley, Jon Lucas, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, John M. Ford, Leo Szilard, Mary W. Stanton, Cam Thornley, Dian Girard, Larry T. Shaw, Arnie Bateman, Evelyn E. Smith, Frank Ramirez, Robert Arthur, Jack Finney, Anne Lear, Cynthia Goldstone, Al Sarrantonio, George Alec Effinger, Brad Cahoon, Thomas N. Scortia, Charles Beaumont, Chad Oliver, Raylyn Moore, K. J. Snow, Deborah Crawford, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Patricia Nurse, Reginald Bretnor, Jon L. Breen, James T. Farrell, E. Y. Harburg, Bill Pronzini, Hal Draper
1984
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, P. Schuyler Miller, Leigh Brackett, Lewis Padgett, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence O'Donnell, Edmond Hamilton, Fredric Brown, C. L. Moore, A. E. van Vogt, Eric Frank Russell, Clifford D. Simak, Lester del Rey, Theodore Sturgeon
