biography
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del Rey, Lester
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in full Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Lester
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| lived:
| (1915–93)
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| biography:
| Writer and editor, born in Clydesdale, Minnesota, USA. He studied at George Washington University (1931–3) and during World War 2 was a sheet-metal worker for McDonnell Aircraft Corp (1942–4). He moved to New York City and became well-known as a writer of fantasy and science fiction. Very prolific, he used many pen names including John Alvarez, Cameron Hall, Marion Henry, and Philip James, and sometimes collaborated with other writers under such names as Edson McCann and Charles Satterfield. He taught fantasy fiction at New York University (1972–3), and as editor of the del Rey imprint at Ballantine Books he was credited with promoting a revival of serious fantasy and science fiction. A sampling of his own work appears in The Best of Lester del Rey (1978). |
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