Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre. Damon Knight was born in Baker, Oregon in 1922, and grew up in Hood River, Oregon. He entered science-fiction fandom at the age of eleven and published two issues of a fanzine entitled "Snide." Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941; an editorial error made this story's ending incomprehensible,... although the story was later reprinted elsewhere as Knight originally wrote it. He was a Hugo Award winner, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, cofounder of the Milford Writer's Workshop, and cofounder of the Clarion Writers Workshop. Until his death, Knight lived in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a writer of science fiction and of fantasy, contemporary mimetic and crime fiction.
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| Birthdate: | September 19, 1922 |
| Date of death: | April 15, 2002 |
| Also known as: | Damon Francis Knight, Stuart Fleming, The Editor |