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May 10, 1993 · Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series, and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. Also ...
Lester del Rey has 557 books on Goodreads with 51370 ratings. Lester del Rey’s most popular book is The Runaway Robot.
In the early 1950s he was editor of Fantasy Magazine, Rocket Stories (under the House Name Wade Kaempfert ), Space Science Fiction and, for a time, Science Fiction Adventures, leaving all these positions after a dispute in 1953.
Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. 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.
May 12, 1993 · Lester del Rey, an editor and author of dozens of science-fiction novels, died on Monday at New York Hospital. A resident of Manhattan, he was 77.
Jan 1, 2001 · This book collects sixteen of del Rey's best short works, most from John Campbell's Astounding SF magazine. It's a good companion volume to the two volume Early del Rey collections, as it contains most the works he mentions in the autobiographical sections of those that they don't include.
Lester Del Rey. Writer: The Magic Lie. Lester Del Rey was born in Clydesdale, Minnesota. His mother died shortly after his birth, leaving the boy and his older sister in the care of their father. Sensing that the children should have a mother, his father hired a woman to care for the children, and later married her.
