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Gardner Dozois

1947 - 2018

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Gardner Raymond Dozois ( doh-ZWAH; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gardner Dozois is the 5,815th most popular writer (down from 5,751st in 2019), the 9,636th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,859th in 2019) and the 708th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Gardner Dozois ranks 5,815 out of 7,302Before him are R. A. Lafferty, John Berryman, Brad Falchuk, Earl Derr Biggers, Guido Gozzano, and Dafydd ap Gwilym. After him are Joe Orton, José Amador de los Ríos, Ma Jian, Donald Richie, John Clare, and Miquel-Lluís Muntané.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gardner Dozois ranks 700Before him are Liz Torres, Ildo Maneiro, Claudio Sala, Sally Struthers, Borka Pavićević, and Mike Chapman. After him are Göran Hagberg, Alan Sugar, Anatoli Polivoda, László Réczi, Denis Lawson, and John Varley. Among people deceased in 2018, Gardner Dozois ranks 451Before him are Manuel Rodríguez, Maria Rohm, Carlo Giuffrè, Evy Berggren, Gary Kurtz, and Patricia Morison. After him are Juris Silovs, Hal Greer, Aleksei Paramonov, Marc Bouissou, Ute Bock, and Mary Midgley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 9,638 out of 20,380Before him are Wesley Ruggles (1889), Frank Weston Benson (1862), Patricia Morison (1915), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Bertha Townsend (1869), and George O'Brien (1899). After him are Edward Angle (1855), Jimmie Vaughan (1951), George Peter Alexander Healy (1813), Pat Monahan (1969), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), and Bella Hadid (1996).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gardner Dozois ranks 708Before him are Bess Meredyth (1890), Edward Abbey (1927), R. A. Lafferty (1914), John Berryman (1914), Brad Falchuk (1971), and Earl Derr Biggers (1884). After him are Donald Richie (1924), John Varley (1947), Richard Scarry (1919), Helen Prejean (1939), Zitkala-Sa (1876), and Ann Rule (1931).