Virginia Kidd was an American literary agent, writer and editor, who worked in particular in science fiction and related fields.
13 Facts About Virginia Kidd
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Virginia Kidd had polio at the age of 2, and was paralyzed for a year from the chest down.
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Virginia Kidd discovered science fiction at the age of nine, and became an active science fiction fan.
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Virginia Kidd was a Futurian and, in 1941, became one of the founding members of the Vanguard Amateur Press Association.
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Virginia Kidd successfully worked as a freelance writer, ghost writer, and proofreader.
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Virginia Kidd is well known for her contributions to the feminist science fiction literary movement, by supporting and representing marginalized authors.
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Virginia Kidd's success overcoming structural barriers in her field makes her a prominent example of a successful businesswoman that was able to work alongside companies such as Ace Publishing and Parnassus Books.
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Virginia Kidd was an active poet, and published Kinesis, a little magazine devoted to poetry which helped to launch the careers of writers including Sonya Dorman.
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Virginia Kidd edited or co-edited several science fiction anthologies: Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories ; The Wounded Planet ; The Best of Judith Merril ; Millennial Women ; Interfaces: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Edges: Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the Imagination.
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Virginia Kidd was a close friend of Judith Merrill, rooming with her in New York City in the 1940s.
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Virginia Kidd's clients included David R Bunch, Juanita Coulson, George Alec Effinger, Alan Dean Foster, Richard E Geis, Ursula K Le Guin, Zach Hughes, Laurence Janifer, R A Lafferty, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, Ward Moore, Christopher Priest, Frank M Robinson, Joanna Russ, and Gene Wolfe.
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Virginia Kidd withdrew from active management of the agency in the mid-1990s due to complications of diabetes.
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Virginia Kidd died in 2003, but the firm survives her death.