EFR/2/2/1 - Correspondence from John W Campbell, Jr - 1947-1971
Correspondence from JWC to EFR, on behalf of the publishing firm Street and Smith (1947 -1957) relating to the publication, Astounding Science Fiction, including letters from JWC's assistant editor at Analog (1961-71). (See EFR/3/1/1-22 for correspondence of a more personal nature.This consists of a...
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| Summary: | Correspondence from JWC to EFR, on behalf of the publishing firm Street and Smith (1947 -1957) relating to the publication, Astounding Science Fiction, including letters from JWC's assistant editor at Analog (1961-71). (See EFR/3/1/1-22 for correspondence of a more personal nature.This consists of approximately 200 typescript letters from JWC and his wife, to EFR, during the period Nov 1949-Feb 1970.) |
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| Date: | 1947-1971 |
| Reference Number: | EFR/2/2/1 |
| Access Conditions: | Permission is required from the family of John W Campbell prior to access to the correspondence with Eric Frank Russell. |
| Arrangement: | Arranged chronologically, correspondence bundled by year, (there is no correspondence for 1956). |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | John W Campbell, Jr, (JWC), American writer and editor, took a degree in physics in 1932 from MIT and Duke University. He first published his work in the early 1930's in various Science Fiction magazines, also using the pseudonym Don A. Stuart. Closely associated with Astounding Science Fiction, where the majority of his stories were first published, he was appointed editor of Astounding Stories magazine in 1937, (the magazine was retitled Astounding Science Fiction in 1938 and Analog in 1960). JWC encouraged new writers, including EFR, publishing his early work in the SF magazines Unknown, (a Fantasy magazine started in 1939 by JWC), Astounding and Analog. Between 1952 and 1964 JWC won eight Hugo awards for Best Editor. He was interested in various kinds of Pseudo-Science and especially L Ron Hubbard's theory of Dianetics. Following his death in 1971, a memorial anthology was published, Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (anth 1974), ed Harry Harrison, and an Australian Symposium about him -- John W. Campbell: An Australian Tribute (anth dated 1974 but 1972) ed John Bangsund, took place. Two awards were founded bearing his name, the John W Campbell Award and the John W Campbell Memorial Award. The majority of the above information is taken from: Clute, John and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Orbit, 1993. |