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Cyril M. Kornbluth

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Cyril M. Kornbluth · Arts & Literature

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Science-fiction writer; The Space Merchants with Frederik Pohl, and a posthumous Hugo Award in 1973

When

2 July 1923, New York City, United States — 21 March 1958, Levittown, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Cyril M. Kornbluth is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Science-fiction writer; The Space Merchants with Frederik Pohl, and a posthumous Hugo Award in 1973

How & why

Cyril M. Kornbluth was born in New York City on 2 July 1923, of Polish Jewish descent — the son of a First World War veteran and the grandson of a Jewish immigrant tailor from Galicia — and died at thirty-four in Levittown, New York, on 21 March 1958. A member of the Futurians, he wrote with Frederik Pohl The Space Merchants (1953), a satire of a world run by advertising agencies that is still read as one of science fiction's sharpest social novels, and alone the much-anthologised story The Marching Morons. His story The Meeting shared the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1973, fifteen years after his death.

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Science-fiction writer; The Space Merchants with Frederik Pohl, and a posthumous Hugo Award in 1973

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Source: Wikipedia — Cyril M. Kornbluth