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Lester Del Rey
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Guest of Honor at "Marcon VI" science-fiction convention (Columbus, Ohio, USA, March 26-28, 1971)
His mother died shortly after his birth.
His father was a tenant farmer and part-time carpenter.
By the age of ten he had read the Bible three times; twice through the King James version, and once through the Douay Bible.
He was the Guest of Honor at the 25th World Science Fiction Convention.
Lived in Red Bank, NJ.
His nonfiction book, "Rockets Through Space", was published two weeks before the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik.
His wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, suffered from dwarfism.
Became interested in science-fiction after reading the works of
Jules Verne
and
H.G. Wells
.
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