Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction and horror author. His most famous novel is More Than Human . Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York in 1918. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon—not a pseudonym—at age eleven after his mother's divorce and remarriage to William Dicky Sturgeon. He sold his first story in 1938 to the McClure Syndicate, which bought much of his early work; his first genre appearance was "Ether Breather" in Astounding Science Fiction a year later. At first he wrote mainly short stories, primarily for genre... magazines such as Astounding and Unknown, but also for general-interest publications such as Argosy Magazine. He used the pen name "E. Waldo Hunter" when two of his stories ran in the same issue of Astounding. A few of his early stories were signed "Theodore H. Sturgeon." Sturgeon ghost-wrote an Ellery Queen mystery novel, The Player on the Other Side . This novel gained critical praise from critic H.R.F.
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