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Frederik Pohl

1919 - 2013

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Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederik Pohl is the 1,898th most popular writer (down from 1,818th in 2019), the 2,783rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,289th in 2019) and the 225th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Frederik Pohl ranks 1,898 out of 7,302. Before him are Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hincmar, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Machen, Sulpicia, and Branko Ćopić. After him are Anonymus, Jacint Verdaguer, Cristóbal de Morales, E. E. Cummings, Juhani Aho, and John Farey Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Frederik Pohl ranks 88. Before him are Joe Weider, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, François Périer, Red Buttons, Mitja Ribičič, and Ella Grasso. After him are Marina Ginestà, Joop den Uyl, Ashraf Pahlavi, Ross Bagdasarian, P. F. Strawson, and Artur Fischer. Among people deceased in 2013, Frederik Pohl ranks 114. Before him are Dennis Farina, Mitja Ribičič, Édouard Molinaro, Rosalía Mera, Ray Price, and Emilio Colombo. After him are Marie-Claire Alain, Ali Kafi, Ken Norton, Richard Ramirez, Ray Harryhausen, and Colin Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederik Pohl ranks 2,783 out of 20,380. Before him are Tim McGraw (1967), Shirley Jackson (1916), Billy Drago (1945), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Ella Grasso (1919), and Jeb Bush (1953). After him are Dan Inosanto (1936), James Levine (1943), Benjamin Spock (1903), E. E. Cummings (1894), Gordon Cooper (1927), and Richard Bassett (1745).

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Among writers born in United States, Frederik Pohl ranks 225. Before him are Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), Richard Ford (1944), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), and Shirley Jackson (1916). After him are E. E. Cummings (1894), John Barth (1930), Nelson Algren (1909), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Maria Shriver (1955), and Agnes Smedley (1892).

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