He sold his first story in 1938 to the McClure Syndicate, which bought much of his early work. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon at age eleven after his mother's divorce and remarriage to William Dicky ("Argyll") Sturgeon. Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York, in 1918. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two dead and two living writers. Ranked by votes for all of their pre-1965 novellas, Sturgeon was second among authors, behind Robert Heinlein.Īn overview of his work by science fiction critic Sam Moskowitz can be found in the collective biography Seekers of Tomorrow. Sturgeon's science fiction novel More Than Human (1953) won the 1954 International Fantasy Award (for SF and fantasy) as the year's best novel, and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked " Baby Is Three" number five among the " Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and several scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series. Theodore Sturgeon ( / ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ən/ born Edward Hamilton Waldo, Febru– May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. Sturgeon's novella Granny Won't Knit took the cover of the May 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller
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