James Frenkel
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2010) |
James Raymond Frenkel (born 1948 in Queens, New York, USA) is a Senior Editor, editing science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction and other books for Tom Doherty Associates (Tor Books and Forge Books). He has edited numerous award-winning authors such as Vernor Vinge, Joan D. Vinge, and Frederik Pohl (all winners of the Hugo award), Andre Norton, Loren D. Estleman, Dan Simmons, Jack Williamson, Timothy Zahn, Marie Jakober and Greg Bear.
In 1968, Frenkel founded The Science Fiction Forum at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a student-run organization which continues to operate a large lending library of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books.
He was the publisher of Bluejay Books, an independent trade publisher of the mid-1980s. Bluejay Books published Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction for three years.[1] He also was the packager of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (for sixteen years) and then Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for five years). He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, author Joan D. Vinge and three cats. They have two children, Jessica Sarah Frenkel and Joshua William Frenkel. Jessica is a jeweler; Joshua is a medical student at the Tulane University School of Medicine.
