In 2010, Roger Zelazny was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Many years, Zelazny’s work competed with each other for the same award. While Zelazny is best known for his Chronicles of Amber series, of which Nine Princes in Amber is the first book, he has won 6 Hugo Awards, 3 Nebula Awards, 2 Locus Awards, 2 Seiun Awards, 2 Balrog Awards and 1 Prix Tour-Apollo Award. The author died of cancer in 1995, at the age of 58. Two years later he married Judith Callahan. Zelazny was married Sharon Steberl in 1964 and later they divorced. He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers’ Guild of America (SAGA), a group of heroic fantasy authors from the 1960s, much of their work was published in Lin Carter’s Flashing Swords! Anthologies. Zelazny was an active member of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. In 1969 he quit his day job and became a full time writer. Zelazny wrote short stories at first, progressed to novellas and finally moved on to novel-length works. After graduation, he worked for the Social Security Administration by day and wrote science fiction by night.
in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama from Columbia University in 1959.
in English from Western Reserve University and went on to earn an M.A. He had a typical childhood and showed an early interest in writing. Roger Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio, the son of of Polish immigrant.
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