Gardner Dozois
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| Born | Gardner Raymond Dozois July 23, 1947 Salem, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Editor, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1970–present |
| Genre | Science fiction magazines, anthologies, short fiction |
| Notable works | Asimov's Science Fiction |
Gardner Raymond Dozois (pronunciation: /doʊˈzwɑː/ doh-ZWAH) (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He is the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–present) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (1984–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He has also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Dozois was born July 23, 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to '69 he served in the Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. One of his stories had been published by Frederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue of If but his next four appeared in 1970, three in Damon Knight's anthology series Orbit.
Dozois has said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town.
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