Hell's cartographers : some personal histories of science fiction writers
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Biography, Authorship, History and criticism
Brian W. Aldiss, Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, Damon Knight, Robert Silverberg
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. - Wikipedia || Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved into editing pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic. In 1954 he married, and their first child was born in 1955. In 1956 he became a full-time writer, and began working on his first book in addition to writing for other publications such as The Saint syndicated comic strips. Over the next decade he and his family moved to several places, including Mexico, England, Italy, back to New York for the birth of their second child in 1959, to Denmark for seven years, back to England in 1965, San Diego in 1967, and finally Ireland in 1975 where they settled. Harrison produced over 60 books, occasionally in collaboration with other well-known writers such as Gordon R. Dickson. || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer. || Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg