1. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine.
28 Facts About Frederik Pohl
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Frederik Pohl won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas The Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years.
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Frederik Pohl won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards, including receiving both for the 1977 novel Gateway.
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Frederik Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs".
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The family settled in Brooklyn when Frederik Pohl was around seven.
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Frederik Pohl attended Brooklyn Technical High School, and dropped out at 17.
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In 1936, Frederik Pohl joined the Young Communist League because of its positions for unions and against racial prejudice, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
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Frederik Pohl became president of the local Flatbush III Branch of the YCL in Brooklyn.
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Frederik Pohl then married Dorothy Les Tina in Paris in August 1945 while both were serving in the military in Europe; the marriage ended in 1947.
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From 1984 until his death, Frederik Pohl was married to science-fiction expert and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull.
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Frederik Pohl was previously a longtime resident of Middletown, New Jersey.
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Frederik Pohl began writing in the late 1930s, using pseudonyms for most of his early works.
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Frederik Pohl started a career as a literary agent in 1937, but it was a sideline for him until after World War II, when he began doing it full-time.
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Stories by Frederik Pohl often appeared in these magazines, but never under his own name.
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Frederik Pohl worked as an advertising copywriter and then as a copywriter and book editor for Popular Science.
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Frederik Pohl co-founded the Hydra Club, a loose collection of science-fiction professionals and fans who met during the late 1940s and 1950s.
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Frederik Pohl hired Judy-Lynn del Rey as his assistant editor at Galaxy and If.
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Frederik Pohl served as editor of Worlds of Tomorrow from its first issue in 1963 until it was merged into If in 1967.
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Frederik Pohl won back-to-back Nebula Awards with Man Plus in 1976 and Gateway, the first Heechee novel, in 1977.
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Frederik Pohl's works include not only science fiction, but articles for Playboy and Family Circle magazines and nonfiction books.
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Frederik Pohl's Law is "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it".
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Frederik Pohl was a frequent guest on Long John Nebel's radio show from the 1950s to the early 1970s, and an international lecturer.
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Frederik Pohl was associated with Gunn since the 1940s, becoming involved in 1975 with what later became Gunn's Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.
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Pohl's work has been an influence on a wide variety of other science fiction writers, some of whom appear in the 2010 anthology, Gateways: Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl, edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull.
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Frederik Pohl collaborated with Thomas T Thomas on a sequel to his award-winning novel Man Plus.
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Frederik Pohl wrote two short stories with Isaac Asimov in the 1940s, both published in 1950.
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Frederik Pohl finished a novel begun by Arthur C Clarke, The Last Theorem, which was published on August 5,2008.
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Frederik Pohl went to the hospital in respiratory distress on the morning of September 2,2013, and died that afternoon at the age of 93.