L. Sprague de Camp
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican non- and speculative fiction writer
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Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.
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De Camp (center) with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov in 1944
A de Camp-Pratt "Gavagan's Bar" story was cover-featured on the January 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe
de Camp's heroic fantasy novel The Tritonian Ring was cover-featured on Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1951.
In 1952, Richard M. Powers provided a Galaxy Science Fiction cover highlighting essays by de Camp and by Robert A. Heinlein.Awards 8
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Arthur C. ClarkeAlso won International Fantasy Award for Best Non Fiction
Harlan EllisonAlso won British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
Elizabeth LoftusAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Jack WilliamsonAlso won Pilgrim Award
Robert SilverbergAlso won Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Madeline MillerAlso won Athenaeum Literary AwardAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1907 to 2000 · aged 92
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25 languages
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