Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Gotlieb | |
|---|---|
| Born | Phyllis Fay Bloom May 25, 1926 Toronto, Ontario |
| Died | July 14, 2009 (aged 83) Toronto, Ontario |
| Occupation | poet, novelist |
| Education | post secondary |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Notable awards | Sunburst Award Prix Aurora Award |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Leo Gotlieb Margaret Gotlieb Jane Lipson |
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 – July 14, 2009)[1] was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
Born of Jewish heritage[2] in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA).
The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst.[3] Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems.[4] Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.
Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921-2016) a computer science professor; they lived in Toronto, Ontario.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Who Knows One? Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961.
- Sunburst. New York: Fawcett, 1964.
- Why Should I Have All the Grief? Toronto: Macmillan, 1969.
- O Master Caliban! New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
- A Judgement of Dragons. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980.
- Emperor, Swords, Pentacles. New York: Ace, 1982.
- Son of the Morning and Other Stories. New York: Ace, 1983.
- The Kingdom of the Cats. New York: Ace, 1985.
- Heart of Red Iron. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.[5]
- Blue Apes. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.[5]
- Flesh and Gold. New York: Tor, 1998.[5]
- Violent Stars. New York: Tor, 1999.[5]
- Mindworld. New York: Tor, 2002.[5]
- Birthstones. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007.[5]
Poetry
- Within the Zodiac. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964.
- Ordinary Moving. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1974.
- The Works. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1978.
- Red Blood Black Ink White Paper: New and Selected Poems 1961-2001. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2002. - 2002
- Phyllis Loves Kelly. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014.
Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University.[6]
References
- ^ Phyllis Gotlieb Service Details
- ^ Biography
- ^ The Sunburst Award
- ^ Phyllis Fay Gotlieb at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ^ a b c d e f "Selected Poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb," Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 27, 2001.
- ^ "Phyllis Gotlieb," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 27, 2011.
External links
- Obituary by Cory Doctorow
- Phyllis Gotlieb at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Selected poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb - Biography & 15 poems (Aquarius, as I was walking down the street, A Catful of Buttermilk, Death's Head, A Discourse, A Double Vision, First Person Demonstrative, Hospitality, Latitude, Ordinary, Moving, Red Black White, Seventh Seal, So Long It's Been, Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Toronto Ontario, What I Know (Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk))
Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2009 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian science fiction writers
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women poets
- Jewish Canadian writers
- Jewish poets
- Jewish women writers
- University of Toronto alumni
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Writers from Toronto
- 20th-century women writers