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Name: GROSSMAN, Josephine
Aged: 74
Born: January 21, 1923
Where: New York, New York
Died: September 12, 1997
Where: Toronto, Canada
Interred: _ _ _
Married: Dan Zissman
When: 1940 (div 1947)
Married 2: Frederick Pohl
When: 1949 (div 1953)
Married 3: Daniel Sugrue
When: 1960
Awarded: Canada's 1983 Aurora Award for
Lifetime Contribution.
"Judith Merril"
"I don't sell my stories. I sell only the right to publish them."
An occasional writer, noted primarily as an anthologist, working for a time as editor at Bantam Books. Judy was associated with the later group of New York Futurians about the time she met Fred Pohl . . . they were married briefly. Judy almost always attended, even directed, the SF writer's gatherings at Milford, PA. Merril's anthologies (56-68) of the year's best Science Fiction set the standards followed later by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim. She relocated to Canada during the Viet-Nam war as a personal protest. Judy presented the Toronto Public Library with her book collection which has become the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy.
Merril was the given name of Judith's first daughter and she adopted "Judith Merril" as a pen name. Later, she had her name legally changed to that.
"I doubt that there is much of anything published
more than twenty years ago still being read today."
PEN NAMES: Rose Sharon, Cyril Judd (w Kornbluth), Eric Thorstein, and Ernest Hamilton
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.
BIOGRAPHY: Science Fiction Writers, Scribners 1982
OBITUARY: Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel here.
