![]() My favorite recreation is fishing (the lazy way, lying in a boat and letting them come to me). In a blurb in Time and Again he wrote, "I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty three years and have two children. He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929, and they had two children, Richard "Dick" Scott (1947–2012) and Shelley Ellen. He became Minneapolis Star 's news editor in 1949 and coordinator of Minneapolis Tribune 's Science Reading Series in 1961. He began a lifelong association with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (in Minneapolis, Minnesota) in 1939, which continued until his retirement in 1976. He later worked at various newspapers in the Midwest. Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and then taught in the public schools until 1929. Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin in 1904, son of John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak. Biography Early life, education, and journalism career The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. ![]() He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. Simak as pictured in Wonder Stories in 1931.Ĭlifford Donald Simak ( / ˈ s ɪ m ə k/ Aug– April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. ![]()
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