Theodore Sturgeon
26 February 1918 - 8 May 1985
Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon.
As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter."
He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940. That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter. He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951. In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels. In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960. In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise. He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive.
His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death. He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon.
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More than human
22 editions - first published in 1953 Borrow -
The dreaming jewels
11 editions - first published in 1950 -
Venus plus X
10 editions - first published in 1960 Borrow -
E Pluribus Unicorn
7 editions - first published in 1953 Borrow -
Slow sculpture
5 editions - first published in 2009 -
Starshine
5 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow -
Some of Your Blood
4 editions - first published in 1977 -
Sturgeon in orbit
4 editions - first published in 1970 -
Caviar: an original collection of science fiction.
4 editions - first published in 1955 -
Case and the dreamer: and other stories
4 editions - first published in 1974 Borrow -
The golden helix
4 editions - first published in 1979 Borrow -
The Cosmic Rape
4 editions - first published in 1958 Borrow -
Not Without Sorcery
3 editions - first published in 1975 -
Sturgeon is alive and well: A Collection of Short Stories
3 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow -
A touch of strange
3 editions - first published in 1958 -
Mas Que Humano
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
Alien cargo
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
To here and theeasel
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
The worlds of Theodore Sturgeon
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Godbody
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To Marry Medusa
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Godbody
2 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow -
Sturgeon Alive / Well
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Star trek, amok time
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Les Talents de Xanadu
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Les plus qu'humains
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Argyll
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The cosmic rape and "To marry Medusa"
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Cuerpodivino
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Los Cristales Sonadores
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Amok Time 12
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
Killdozer - le viol cosmique
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Heavy Metal Presents Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
Killdozer!
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
To marry Medusa / Theodore Sturgeon
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La fuente del unicornio
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Las estrellas son la Estigia
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Microcosmic God
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Mas Que Humano/More Than Human
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Beyond
1 edition - first published in 1980 -
Aliens 4 (Avon SF, T-304)
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
The perfect host
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Inʾgan ŭl nŏmŏsŏ
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Baby Is Three (Swc 1492)
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
The Dreaming Jewels, the Cosmic Rape, Venus Plus X
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Los Cristales Soqadores
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Regreso - Tapa Dura
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Without sorcery; thirteen tales
1 edition - first published in 1948 -
The nail and the oracle
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
The man who lost the sea
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
HORROR HUNTERS
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
More Than Human
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Regreso
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
THE WITCHCRAFT READER
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Case and the Dreamer
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
E Pluribus Unicorn
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Amok time
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Baby is three
1 edition - first published in 1999 Checked out
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History Created April 1, 2008 · 5 revisions
| October 18, 2010 | Edited by Alan Millar | merge authors |
| September 1, 2010 | Edited by Ken Haase | merge authors |
| April 12, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added photos to author pages. |
| January 28, 2009 | Edited by caf21 | Changed author name order, added fuller name, added web site, added location, added birth date, added death date, added wikipedia link, added bio, added photo |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |