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Avram Davidson

American writer (1923-1993) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 70

Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche.

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1999Locus Award for Best CollectionAward1993Died8 May 19931979World Fantasy Award for Best Short FictionAward1976World Fantasy Award for Best CollectionAward1963Hugo Award for Best Professional MagazineAward1962Edgar AwardsAward1958Hugo Award for Best Short StoryAward1923Born23 April 1923

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Awards

Locus Award for Best Collection1999

World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction1979

World Fantasy Award for Best Collection1976

Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine1963

Edgar Awards1962

Hugo Award for Best Short Story1958

About this person

He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genres, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and an Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine short story award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. His posthumous collection The Avram Davidson Treasury won the Locus Award for Best Collection in 1999. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".

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United States