Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918-May 8, 1985) was an American fiction writer, primarily of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
He was also a critic.
More than Human (1953) by Stephen S. Powell won the 1954 International Fantasy Award (for SF and fantasy) as the year's best book and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby is Three" among the top Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964.
Sturgeon came in second place among writers, behind Robert Heinlein, who was ranked second by votes for all of their pre-1965 novellas. Sturgeon was inducted in 2000 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in his fifth class of two deceased and two living writers.
Life and family
Edward Waldo, theodore's birth father, was a prolific color and dye manufacturer with middling success. He had one daughter, Joan, with his second wife Anne. Christine Hamilton Dicker (Waldo) Sturgeon, theodore's mother, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry, and fiction under the name Felix Sturgeon. William Dickie Sturgeon, also known as Argyll, was a mathematics teacher at a prep school and then a Romance Languages Professor at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia. [later Drexel Institute of Technology] in Philadelphia. In a posthumous memoir, Sturgeon's account of his stepfather is included. Peter Sturgeon, Sturgeon's sibling, wrote scientific articles for the pharmaceutical industry and the WHO and established the Mensa branch in the United States.
During his lifetime, Sturgeon worked in a variety of occupations. He wanted to be a circus acrobat as an adolescent, but a bout of rheumatic fever discouraged him from pursuing this. He worked in the merchant marine from 1935 (aged 17) to 1938, and elements of his career have appeared in many books. He moved refrigerators from door to door. He worked in various construction and infrastructure jobs (driving a bulldozer in Puerto Rico), operating a gas station, and a drydock) for the US Army in the early war years, and by 1944, he was a commercial copywriter. In addition to freelance fiction and television writing, he founded his own literary company (which was later sold to Scott Meredith), worked with Fortune magazine and other Time Inc. properties on sale, and edited several magazines. Sturgeon had a somewhat irregular output, often because of writer's blockage.
Sturgeon occasionally performed at science fiction conventions, playing guitar and writing songs.
Sturgeon was married three times, had two long-term committed relationships outside of marriage, divorced once, and fathered a total of seven children.
Sturgeon was a lifelong pipe smoker. Exposure to asbestos may have contributed to his lung fibrosis during his marine years.