He was most successful editing for Ballantine Books with his final wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, and founded a popular science fiction imprint with her at Ballantine, Del Rey Books, in 1977. John), Rocket Stories (as Wade Kampfaert), and Fantasy Fiction (as Cameron Hall). In 19, he edited Space SF, Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures (as Philip St. He later made his way into editing for pulp magazines and then for book publishers. In 1947 he met the literary agent Scott Meredith at a convention and he began working for Meredith's agency as a reader and office manager. Best Science Fiction Stories Of the Year. After marrying his second wife in 1945, he became a full-time writer. Lester Del Rey is the author of books such as Moon Of Mutiny. In the 1950s, he was a leading science fiction writer.
By 1947 he had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology And Some Were Human. In 1935, his first wife was killed in a car accident. He was closely associated Astounding Science Fiction, then the leading science fiction magazine. He started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he managed to complete high school and two years at George Washington University before dropping out for economic reasons.
He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.
Lester del Rey was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota, the son of poor sharecroppers of partly Spanish ancestry. Lester del Rey (J May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.
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