Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990)
Author of The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
The Anthology Series World's Best Science Fiction/ Annual World's Best SF/ Wollheim's World's Best SF was republished under various titles with inconsistant numbering. See Series page for more information before separating/combining.
Series
Works by Donald A. Wollheim
Avon Science Fiction Reader No. 3 9 copies
Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17 — Editor — 9 copies
Destination: Saturn — Author — 7 copies
Out of This World Adventures, July 1950 — Editor — 7 copies
The-- annual world's best sf 6 copies
The Rag Thing 6 copies
Het Ding in de Rots SF Verhalen 4 — Editor — 5 copies
Mimic 5 copies
Top Secret 4 copies
More Terror in the Modern Vein 4 copies
Wie Weit Ist Es Nach babylon?, — Author — 4 copies
The Embassy 3 copies
Mysteriet på Mars 3 copies
Nothing 2 copies
Urania 0747 - MESSAGGIO PER PLUTONE 2 copies
Up There [short story] 2 copies
Stirring Science Stories, February 1941 — Editor — 2 copies
Advancing the electronic age 2 copies
The Man From the Future 2 copies
Cosmic Stories 1941 07 2 copies
World's Best Science Fiction 2 copies
Botten 2 copies
El planeta oculto 2 copies
The Lysenko Maze [short fiction] 2 copies
The 19th Annual World's Best SF 2 copies
The Earth in peril 2 copies
The feminine fraction 1 copy
A Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 4: Across Time, Mission to a Star, The Rim of Space (Library Edition) (2009) 1 copy
Swordsmen In The Sky 1 copy
Castaway 1 copy
Zacherley's Vulture Stew 1 copy
The Daw SciFi Breeder 1 copy
Destiny World 1 copy
Extending The Holdings 1 copy
She 1 copy
Babylon: 70M 1 copy
nueva dimensión - 020 1 copy
Malice Aforethought 1 copy
The Haters 1 copy
Il Gradino di Venere 1 copy
Give Her Hell 1 copy
Bd. 174. Entscheidung 1 copy
El secreto del planeta Marte 1 copy
Secrets of Saturn's Rings 1 copy
Blind Flight 1 copy
Cosmic Stories, March 1941 1 copy
Associated Works
Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Contributor — 66 copies
The Secret Visitors / Master of Life and Death (Vintage Ace Double, D-237) (1957) — Editor, some editions — 42 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1952, Vol. 3, No. 7 (1952) — Contributor — 8 copies
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Wollheim, Donald A.
- Legal name
- Wollheim, Donald Allen
- Other names
- Pearson, Martin
Grinnell, David
White, W. Malcolm
Gordon, Millard Verne
Wells, Braxton
Woods, Lawrence (show all 9)
Raynor, Darrell G.
Cooke, Arthur
Zweig, Allen - Birthdate
- 1914-10-01
- Date of death
- 1990-11-02
- Burial location
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- Flushing, Queens, New York, USA
- Occupations
- editor
publisher
writer - Relationships
- Wollheim, Elizabeth R. (daughter)
Wollheim, Elsie (wife) - Organizations
- Futurians
Avon Books
Ace Books
DAW Books
Fantasy Amateur Press Association
New York Science Fiction League (show all 7)
Casa Susanna - Awards and honors
- First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1975)
World Fantasy Special Award Nominee (professional, 1975)
World Fantasy Special Award Nominee (professional, publishing and editing, 1976)
World Fantasy Special Award Nominee (professional, DAW Books, 1978)
World Fantasy Special Award Nominee (professional, DAW Books, 1980)
World Fantasy Special Award (professional, DAW Books, 1981) (show all 12)
World Fantasy Convention Award (1986)
World SF Convention Guest of Honor (1988)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Editor, Retro-Hugo, [1946], 1996)
SF Hall Of Fame (Posthumous Inductee, 2002)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Editor, Retro-Hugo, [1954], 2004)
Hugo Nominee (Fan Writer, Retro-Hugo, [1939], 2014) - Short biography
- Author, Publisher. Born in New York City, New York, he was a member of the "Futurians", a group of science fiction enthusiasts who would go on to be prominent authors and editors in the field. He was one of the leading influences on the development of science fiction in the United States in the 20th century. He founded DAW Books in 1971 (company designed to produce exclusively science fiction publications), and is remembered for works such as "Across Time," "The Martian Missile," "Destination Saturn," "Two Dozen Dragon Eggs" and "The Man From Ariel."
- Disambiguation notice
- The Anthology Series World's Best Science Fiction/ Annual World's Best SF/ Wollheim's World's Best SF was republished under various titles with inconsistant numbering. See Series page for more information before separating/combining.
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Statistics
- Works
- 193
- Also by
- 59
- Members
- 7,497
- Popularity
- #3,265
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 97
- ISBNs
- 147
- Languages
- 10