Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, United States on March 12th, 1925 and is the Novelist. At the age of 87, Harry Harrison biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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(1966).The former served as a rough base for Soylent Green (1973), which was the motion picture.
Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss referred to him as "a regular peer and a good family friend."
"Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark," Michael Carroll said, "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and imagine them as science-fiction books."
They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're also stories with a lot of heart." In an obituary, novelist Christopher Priest noted that Harrison was a well-known figure in the SF world, known for his amiability, outspoken, and amusing.
His quickfire, machine-gun delivery of words was a delight to hear and a reward to decipher: he was amusing and self-aware, he enjoyed reporting others' blunders, feared prime ministers, and tax officials with a sardonic and cruel tone, but above all, he made plain his keen intelligence and a remarkable range of moral, ethical, and literary sensibilities.
Personal life
Henry Maxwell Dempsey, a native of Stamford, Connecticut, was born on March 12, 1925. Henry Leo Dempsey, a printer of three-fourths of Irish descent, changed his name to Harrison soon after Harry was born. Harry did not know this was until he was 30 years old, at which time he changed his name to Harry Max Harrison in court. Ria H. (Kirjassoff), his mother, was Russian Jewish. She had been born in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. Max David Kirjassoff (1888-1923) had been an American consul in Japan, but he and his wife Alice were killed in 1923 during the 1923 Great Kant earthquake.
Harrison was recruited as a weapons sight technician and as a gunnery instructor after finishing Forest Hills High School in 1943. Priests also claimed that he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, and a weapons expert on the designs of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets. "But overall, the army experience instilled in him a fear of the military that was to serve him well as a writer later on."
He started in 1946 and worked at Hunter College in New York City, where he later owned a shop that sold illustrations to comics and science fiction magazines.
Harrison married Evelyn Harrison, who appeared in a cartoon he drew of the Hydra Club in 1950. Evelyn and Lester del Rey married in 1951, and soon after, they divorced.
In 1954, Harrison married Joan Merkler Harrison. They didn't marry until her death from cancer in 2002. Todd (born in 1955) and Moira (born in 1959), to whom he dedicated his book Make Room! Make space!
Harrison became a fan of Esperanto in his middle years, claiming to "write and speak it with an ease that I've never been able to understand in any other than my native English"; he learned it out of boredom during military service, according to Christopher Priest. The language is often used in his books, particularly in the Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld series.
He was the honorary president of the Esperanto Association of Ireland, where he had lived with his family for a number of years in County Wicklow's Vale of Avoca. He was also a member of Esperanto-USA (formerly the "Esperanto League for North America"), of which he was a member, and the Universala Esperanto Association (World Esperanto Association), of which he was a member.
Harrison lived in many parts of the world, including Mexico, England, Italy, Denmark, and Ireland.
Harrison made several household moves overseas, according to the priest:
He spent the bulk of his later years in Ireland after many years of being on the move and raising children. Harrison was able to obtain citizenship by an Irish tax exemption for musicians, and he enjoyed tax-free status.
Harrison had an apartment in London for many years, and later in Brighton, England, where they were used for his frequent visits to England, and when Joan died in 2002, his British home became permanent.
Harrison's official website, which appeared at the Irish national convention a few years earlier, announced his death on August 15, 2012 at his Brighton, England apartment.
Harlan Ellison said "It's a day without stars in it" when learning of his death on August 15, 2012.
Career
Harrison began as an illustrator before becoming an editor and writer, most notably with EC Comics' two science fiction comic book series Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He most often collaborated with Wally Wood in these and other comic book stories. Wood was often inked about Harrison's layouts, and the two of them freelanced for a variety of publishers and genres, including westerns and horror comics. In 1950, He and Wood ended their relationship and parted ways. Under the pen names Felix Boyd and Hank Dempsey, Harrison used house pen names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit journals and published other fiction. In one of the long-running series of books starring Leslie Charteris' character The Saint, Harrison ghostwrote Vendetta for the Saint. Harrison also wrote for syndicated comic strips, as well as several stories about the character Rick Random.
In the February 1951 issue of Worlds Beyond, edited by Damon Knight; the magazine had previously published his illustrations. While in New York, he socialized at the Hydra Club, an organization of New York's science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, whose contribution to Bill, the Galactic Hero, and its sequel. The Hydra Club welcomed writers like Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, and Theodore Sturgeon in the early 1950s.
Harrison has been known for his later writing, particularly for his satirical and satirical science fiction, as well as his book Bill, the Galactic Hero, which mocked Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.Priest wrote:
"His books crossed the line between science fiction adventure, humor, and satire, with some having a strong anti-military bent influenced by his time in the US Army Air Corps," Adi Robertson said.
He was the main writer of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip in the 1950s and 1960s. In a Comics Revue magazine, one of his Flash Gordon scripts was serialized. Harrison drew sketches to help the artist be more scientifically accurate, which the artist largely dismissed.
Although not all of Harrison's writing was comedic, it was amusing. Make Room! He wrote several essays on controversial topics, of which the best known is the one about overpopulation and environmental exploitation of the world's resources.Make Room!
(1966), which was used as a basis for Soylent Green, a 1973 science fiction film (though the film changed the plot and theme).Harrison Aldiss was closely associated with him for a time. They collaborated on a number of anthology projects and did a lot in the 1970s to raise the bar of criticism in the field, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. "In 1965, Harrison and Aldiss appeared in the first issue (of two) of the world's first serious journal of SF criticism, SF Horizons." They edited several anthologies of short stories, each one illustrating the major themes of SF, and although not intended as a critical device, the books served as a way of defining the fantastic's unique content. The two men founded World SF, an association of writers that aims to promote and enhance the writing of non-anglophone SF." The two edited nine volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthology collection, as well as three volumes of the Decade series, collecting science fiction from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s respectively.
Harrison, together with Joe Haldeman and Wolfgang Jeschke, was the Professional Guest of Honor at ConFiction, the 48th World SF Convention in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1990.
Harrison was a writer of a relatively liberal worldview. Harrison's drawings often compares the thinking man to the man of power, but "Thinking Man" does not always have to use force itself, as the "Thinking Man" does.
Harrison did not win a major genre award for a particular piece of fiction. Harrison was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him its 26th SFWA Grand Master in 2008 (presentation of the Damon Knight Award following in 2009). He made his name by winning the Golden Roscon award for lifetime achievement in science fiction in 2008.