Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey | |
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Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey at Minicon in Minneapolis, 1974 | |
| Born | Leonard Knapp June 2, 1915 Saratoga Township, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1993 (aged 77) New York City, U.S. |
| Pen name | John Alvarez, Marion Henry, Philip James, Philip St. John, Charles Satterfield, Erik van Lhin, Kenneth Wright |
| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Period | 1938–1991 |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
| Spouses | unknown
(m. 1935; died 1935)Helen Schlaz
(m. 1945; div. 1949)Evelyn Harrison
(m. 1954; died 1970) |
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Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the fantasy editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, subsequently Random House, working for his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey’s imprint, Del Rey.