Clifford D. Simak
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| Born | Clifford Donald Simak August 3, 1904 Millville, Wisconsin |
| Died | April 25, 1988 (aged 83) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Occupation | Journalist, popular writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1931–1986 (fiction) |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Subject | Popular science |
Clifford Donald Simak (pronounced SIM-ak, August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin in 1904, son of John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak. Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later worked at various newspapers in the Midwest. He began a lifelong association with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (in Minneapolis, Minnesota) in 1939, which continued until his retirement in 1976. He became Minneapolis Star's news editor in 1949 and coordinator of Minneapolis Tribune's Science Reading Series in 1961.
He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929, and they had two children, Richard (Dick) Scott (d. 2012) and Shelley Ellen. In a blurb in Time and Again he wrote, "I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty three years and have two children. My favorite recreation is fishing (the lazy way, lying in a boat and letting them come to me). Hobbies: Chess, stamp collecting, growing roses." He dedicated the book to his wife Kay, "without whom I'd never have written a line". He was well liked by many of his science-fiction-writing friends, especially Isaac Asimov.
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