Author

Poul Anderson, Karen Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)

Poul William Anderson was born in Pennsylvania to Scandinavian parents. His family lived for a time in Denmark but moved back to the United States after the outbreak of the Second World War. They settled in Minnesota, where Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota.

Anderson began writing while still an undergraduate and published his first story in 1947. He was active throughout the second half of the twentieth century, producing such classic works as the Dominic Flandry books and The High Crusade, and winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. He has served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1998 he was named an SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen, and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul Anderson died in July 2001.

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Karen Anderson (1932 - )

Karen Anderson is the working name of US writer June Millichamp "Karen" Kruse Anderson. She was married to Poul Anderson from 1953 until his death in 2001, and with whom she published her first work of genre interest. "The Innocent Arrival", for Galaxy in 1958. They also collaborated on a number of other projects, including The Last Viking sequence and the King of Ys sequence.