https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article214
"A. E. van Vogt (1912-2000) was born on a farm in the vicinity of Winnipeg,
Manitoba (Canada) in a family of Dutch extraction. He spoke Frisian (a Germanic
language spoken in the north of Holland) at home until the age of four.
He was brought up in the small rural town of Neville in the neighbouring
province of Saskatchewan until the family moved to Winnipeg when he was ten. He
became a professional writer in the early thirties after working briefly for
the Canadian government, writing mostly true-confession-type romance stories
and a considerable number (50-odd) of radio scripts, and became the Winnipeg
correspondent for McLean Publishing Group, writing interviews and articles for
various corporate publications.
He wrote his first science-fiction story
Vault of the Beast in 1938
(published in 1940), followed shortly by
Black Destroyer, his first published
story. It made the cover of the July 1939 issue of the prestigious
Astounding
Science-Fiction magazine and is often considered to have launched the "golden
age" of science fiction.
From then on he wrote mostly science fiction, with the exception of a few
stories and a novel (
The Book of Ptath (1943)) in the fantastic vein. He
later wrote one "mainstream" novel, the very political
The Violent Man
(1962)."
Via
libramoon@pluspora.com.
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