William f nolan biography definition

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William f nolan biography definition us history

Tagged: Author, Editor.

(1928-2021) US author and editor who trained and for a time practised as a commercial artist; he also raced cars, publishing several books on the subject. Nolan first became active in sf Fandom in the 1950s, cofounding the San Diego Science Fantasy Society, being a staff member for the FanzineRhodomagnetic Digest, publishing The Ray Bradbury Review (including his own first story "The Immortal Ones: A Satire" in 1952), and serving as managing editor of issues #1-#3 of Gamma (1963-1964).

His first professionally published sf story was "The Joy of Living" in If for August 1954; he subsequently write some short stories and criticism as by Frank Anmar and F E Edwards. He became a full-time writer in 1956.

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Of his more than fifty books, at least thirty are related directly to sf or fantasy. His first sf book, the collection Impact-20 (coll 1963; vt Impact 201966; exp 2002), assembles some early work.

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