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Damon Knight Dies At 79

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22-04-2002 11:32pm

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From www.scifi.com ----

SFWA's Knight Dies At 79
F author, editor and critic Damon Knight?founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association of America?died April 15 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, Ore., after a long illness, the Locus Online Web site reported. He was 79.

Knight published his first story in 1941 and went on to write 13 novels, beginning with Hell's Pavement in 1955, and more than 100 short stories, the Associated Press reported. One short story, "To Serve Man," was adapted into a well-known episode of The Twilight Zone. Knight published his last novel, Humpty Dumpty: An Oval, in 1996. Knight won the Hugo Award in 1956 for reviewing and the Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1995.

Knight was influential as a teacher, critic and organizer and served as first president of the SFWA. He also edited Orbit, a science fiction anthology series, the AP reported. Knight and his SF-writer wife, Kate Wilhelm, taught for 27 years at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, held annually at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Knight is survived by his wife, two daughters, two sons, two stepsons and seven grandchildren, the AP reported

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