Frederik Pohl, was born on November 26, 1919. He has been about everything that it is possible to be in the field of science fiction, from consecrated fan and struggling poet to critic, literary agent, teacher, book and magazine editor and, above all, writer.

Pohl has won most of the awards the sf field has to offer, including the Edward E. Smith and Donald A. Wollheim memorial awards, the International John W. Campbell Award (twice), the French Prix Apollo, the Yugoslavian Vizija, the Nebula (3 times—including the "Grand Master" Nebula for lifetime contributions to the field) and the Hugo (6 times—he is the only person ever to have won the Hugo both as writer and as editor), as well as such awards from sources outside the science fiction community as the American Book Award, the annual award of the Popular Culture Association, and the United Nations Society of Writers Award. Other honors include election as a Fellow to both the British Interplanetary Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Apart from the field of science fiction, he is a noted lecturer and teacher in the area of future studies, and is the author of, among other nonfiction works, Practical Politics, a how-to-do manual of the American political process.

Many of Pohl's works have been adapted for radio, television or film, beginning with the two-part Columbia Workshop of the Air version of the classic The Space Merchants in 1953. In Europe, a number of his stories have been televised by the BBC and his famous novella, The Midas Plague, became a three-hour special on German television. The 1981 NBC two-hour TV film, The Clonemaster, was based on an original concept of his; his award-winning novel, Gateway, has been dramatized for live theatrical production; his novelettes, The Tunnel under the World, was made into a feature film in Italy; and his novels Man Plus and Gateway are currently in development in the United States as feature films. (Gateway was also made into a computer game under the title of Frederik Pohl's Gateway by Legend Entertainment; a second game, Gateway II: the Home World, was released a year later.)

He has traveled widely, sometimes to lecture on behalf of the United States State Department or to attend international conferences on science of science fiction in places like the Republic of South Korea, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Australia, Brazil, the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, and most of Western Europe. He is past president of both World SF and the Science Fiction Writers of America and is currently Midwest Area Representative to the Authors Guild, having served for nine years as a member of the Guild Council before moving to the Midwest. He currently makes his home in Palatine, Illinois, with his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Anne Hull, who is a past president of the Science Fiction Research Assocation and a noted scholar in the field.

Awards Nebula Best Novella nominee (1965) : Under Two Moons Nebula Best Short story nominee (1972) : Shaffery Among the Immortals Nebula Best Novella nominee (1972) : The Gold at Starbow's End Hugo Best Short story winner (1973) : The Meeting Hugo Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Gold at Starbow's End Nebula Best Short story nominee (1975) : Growing Up in Edge City Nebula Best Novel winner (1976) : Man Plus Nebula Best Novel winner (1977) : Gateway Hugo Best Novel nominee (1977) : Man Plus Hugo Best Novel winner (1978) : Gateway Nebula Best Novella nominee (1979) : Mars Masked Nebula Best Novel nominee (1979) : Jem Nebula Best Novel nominee (1980) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Hugo Best Novel nominee (1980) : Jem Hugo Best Novel nominee (1981) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Nebula Best Novella nominee (1984) : The Greening of Bed-Stuy Hugo Best Short story nominee (1984) : Servant of the People Hugo Best Short story winner (1986) : Fermi and Frost Hugo Best Novella nominee (1993) : Stopping at Slowyear Collections Alternating Currents (1956) The Wonder Effect (1962) (with C M Kornbluth) Digits and Dastards (1966) The Man Who Ate the World (1966) Day Million (1971) Gold at the Starbow's End (1973) Omnibus (1973) The Best of Frederick Pohl (1975) Best of Frederik Pohl (1976) The Early Pohl (1976) In the Problem Pit: And Other Stories (1976) Critical Mass (1977) (with C M Kornbluth) Before the Universe (1980) (with C M Kornbluth) The Starchild Trilogy (1980) (with Jack Williamson) Pohlstars (1984) Our Best: The Best of F.Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1987)(with C M Kornbluth) The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee (1990) The Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 (1994) (with Ben Bova, Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield) The Undersea Trilogy (1995) Platinum Pohl (2001) Non Fiction The Way the Future Was: A Memoir (1978) New Visions : A Collection of Modern Science Fiction Art (1982) Science Fiction Studies in Film (1984) Our Angry Earth (1991) (with Isaac Asimov) Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport (1995) Prince Henry Sinclair: His Expedition to the New World in 1398 (1996) Novels The Space Merchants (1952) (with C M Kornbluth) Search the Sky (1954) (with C M Kornbluth) Gladiator-at-Law (1955) (with C M Kornbluth) Preferred Risk (1955) (writing as Edson McCann) Slave Ship (1956) Wolfbane (1957) (with C M Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Man Plus (1976) Gateway (1977) Jem (1979) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) The Cool War (1981) Starburst (1982) Syzygy (1982) Midas World (1983) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Merchant's War (1984) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) Tales from the Planet Earth (1986) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) Chernobyl (1987) The Day the Martians Came (1988) Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson) Narabedla, Ltd. (1988) (with Jack Williamson) Homegoing (1989) Outnumbering the Dead (1990) The World at the End of Time (1990) The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) Mining the Oort (1992) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T Thomas) The Voices of Heaven (1994) O Pioneer! (1998) Far Shore of Time (1999) Series Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson) Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around a Star (1975) Eschaton The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) Starchild (with Jack Williamson) The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969) Undersea Eden (with Jack Williamson) Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1955) Undersea City (1958) Short Stories The Mantle of Graag (1941) (with Harry Dockweiler, Robert A W Lowndes) Wings of the Lightning Land (1941) (As James MacCreigh) Legal Rites (1950) (with Isaac Asimov) The Little Man on the Subway (1950) (As James MacCreigh with I.Asimov) The Midas Plague (1954) The Tunnel Under the World (1954) What to Do Until the Analyst Comes (1955) The Census Takers (1956) Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956) The Man Who Ate the World (1956) Survival Kit (1957) The Snowmen (1958) The Wizards of Pung's Corners (1958) The Bitterest Pill (1959) The Day the Icicle Works Closed (1959) The Seven Deadly Virtues (1959) The Waging of the Peace (1959) The Quaker Cannon (1961) (with C M Kornbluth) The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass (1962) The Martian Star-Gazers (1962) Punch (1963) The Children of the Night (1964) The Fiend (1965) Under Two Moons (1965) Day Million (1966) The Day After the Day the Martians Came (1967) Speed Trap (1967) Rogue Star (part 2) (1968) (with Jack Williamson) Rogue Star (part 3) (1968) (with Jack Williamson) The Schematic Man (1969) The Gold at Starbow's End (1972) The Meeting (1972) (with C M Kornbluth) The Merchants of Venus (1972) Shaffery Among the Immortals (1972) Enjoy, Enjoy (1974) The Gift of Garigolli (1974) (with C M Kornbluth) Mute Inglorious Tam (1974) (with C M Kornbluth) Rem the Rememberer (1974) We Purchased People (1974) Growing Up in Edge City (1975) The Mother Trip (1975) A Day in the Life of Able Charlie (1976) Gateway (part 1) (1976) The Way It Was (1977) Mars Masked (1979) Farmer on the Dole (1982) The High Test (1983) Second Coming (1983) Servant of the People (1983) Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair (1983) Criticality (1984) The Greening of Bed-Stuy (1984) The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles (1984) Fermi and Frost (1985) Iriadeska's Martians (1986) Adeste Fideles (1987) At the Summit (1989) The Reunion at the Mile-High (1989) Stopping at Slowyear (1992) Redemption in the Quantum Realm (1994) The Mayor of Mare Tranq (1996) Hatching the Phoenix (1999) A Life and a Half Small Lords