Ellison had already become deeply involved in Cleveland Fandom, producing material for and later taking over the Cleveland SF Society's Amateur Magazine, Science-Fantasy Bulletin (later Dimensions). For many years he insisted that he was not in fact primarily an sf writer, and indeed most of his large oeuvre is better described as nonfantastic, or Fantasy, or Horror but his influence on the field – or more accurately perhaps his example, as he became famous through writing little but short stories (and much nonfiction) – was enormous.Įllison was born and raised in Ohio, attending Ohio State University for 18 months before being asked to leave, one of the reasons for his dismissal being rudeness to a creative-writing professor who told him he had no talent. (1934-2018) US author, the most controversial and among the finest of those writers associated with sf whose careers began in the 1950s.
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