1. Phyllis Eisenstein was an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as novels.
11 Facts About Phyllis Eisenstein
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Phyllis Eisenstein's work was nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
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Phyllis Eisenstein continued college until Alex entered the US Air Force and, following basic training, was posted to Germany; they lived there for three years and then returned to Chicago upon his honorable discharge from the service.
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Phyllis Eisenstein wrote eight novels, subsequently publishing six of them and nearly fifty shorter works of varying lengths in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction; Eisenstein wrote a popular non-fiction book on the treatment of arthritis.
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Phyllis Eisenstein's stories have appeared in a number anthologies and in many major science fiction and fantasy print media magazines; these include The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Galaxy Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, and others.
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Phyllis Eisenstein's stories were nominated twice for science fiction's Hugo Award and three times for SFWA's Nebula Award.
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Phyllis Eisenstein was an old friend of Martin and later convinced him to include dragons in his international best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Phyllis Eisenstein spent much of her adult life teaching writing; this began by assisting author Roger Zelazny at the Indiana University Writers Conference in 1977.
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Phyllis Eisenstein taught writing at the Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop at Michigan State University, Oakton Community College of Skokie, Illinois, and the Writer's Digest School.
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Phyllis Eisenstein completed The Walker Between Worlds, the first novel in a new science-fantasy series called "The Masks of Power".
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Phyllis Eisenstein suffered a stroke in January 2020, and entered hospice care shortly thereafter.