He became president of the local Flatbush III Branch of the YCL in Brooklyn. In 1936, Pohl joined the Young Communist League because of its positions for unions and against racial prejudice, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini. In fact, there are one or two – Jack Robins, Dave Kyle – whom I still count as friends, seventy-odd years later." He published a science-fiction fanzine called Mind of Man.
Pohl later said that other "friends came and went and were gone, many of the ones I met through fandom were friends all their lives – Isaac, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Dirk Wylie, Dick Wilson. While a teenager, he co-founded the New York–based Futurians fan group, and began lifelong friendships with Donald Wollheim, Isaac Asimov, and others who would become important writers and editors. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary diploma from Brooklyn Tech. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, and dropped out at 17. The family settled in Brooklyn when Pohl was around seven. held various jobs, and the Pohls lived in such far-flung locations as Texas, California, New Mexico, and the Panama Canal Zone. Pohl was the son of Frederik (originally Friedrich) George Pohl (a salesman of German descent) and Anna Jane Mason. Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs". The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards, including receiving both for the 1977 novel Gateway. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction, and it was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. He 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. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W.
įrom 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.
( / p oʊ l/ November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years-from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
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