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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 .
- American
- Helen Schlaz (second of four, m. 1945), Evelyn Harrison, Judy-Lynn Benjamin
- Writer, editor
Lester del Rey has 557 books on Goodreads with 51370 ratings. Lester del Rey’s most popular book is The Runaway Robot.
Oct 1, 2023 · Book publishing and retailing were revolutionized in the 1970s. Lester del Rey took advantage of that revolution, realizing that readers were hungry for derivates of Tolkien.
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Oct 27, 2018 · Lester del Rey was born in Minnesota in 1915 and died in 1993. One of his boldest fictions was claiming that his full name was Ramón Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes, when it was actually Leonard Knapp.
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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 ...
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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.
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.
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