Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon. He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60. He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954. In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference. Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism. In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000. He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer.
Damon Knight
Author details
- Born:
- Sept. 19, 1922
- Died:
- April 15, 2002
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Books by Damon Knight
![Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Gregory Benford, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Alfred Bester, Ray Russell, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn, Robert Sheckley, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, George R. R. Martin, Thomas F. Monteleone, Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Joseph D. Olander, C. M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, Jerome Bixby, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ: 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (Paperback, 1980, Pan Books)](https://solarpunk.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/covers/c18e0a0e-16b3-4999-9308-dac4cd1f8826.jpeg)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
by Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, and 66 others