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pohl fiction conference in 2008 at the j. lloyd eaton science 2 september 2013 palatine , illinois , united states frederik george pohl , jr. edson , paul fleur , lee gregor , warren f. howard mccann , scott mariner , ernst mason , james mccreigh , , dirk wilson , donald stacy jordan park , elton v. andrews new york city , united states 200px campbell memorial award 1978 , 1985 american 26 november 1919 1939 -- 2013 science fiction frederik pohl eaton 2008-05-17 . png frederik pohl
 frederik pohl novelist , editor , literary agent , short story author , essayist , publisher
frederik pohl

frederik george pohl , jr. -lrb- ; november 26 , 1919 -- september 2 , 2013 -rrb- was an american science fiction writer , editor and fan , with a career spanning more than seventy-five years -- from his first published work , the 1937 poem `` elegy to a dead satellite : luna '' , to the 2011 novel `` all the lives he led '' and articles and essays published in 2012 .
from 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 .
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. campbell memorial award .
he won the campbell memorial award again for the 1984 collection of novellas `` years of the city '' , one of two repeat winners during the first forty years .
for his 1979 novel `` jem '' , pohl won a u.s. national book award in the one-year category science fiction .
it was a finalist for three other years ' best novel awards .
he won four hugo and three nebula awards .
the science fiction 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 .
pohl won the hugo award for best fan writer in 2010 , for his blog , `` the way the future blogs '' .
