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    Terry Bisson

    American novelist (1942–2024)

    Terry Ballantine Bisson (February 12, 1942 – January 10, 2024) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire", which won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and "They're Made Out of Meat".

    Biography

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    Terry Ballantine Bisson was born on February 12, 1942,[1] in Madisonville, Kentucky, and raised in Owensboro, Kentucky.[2][3]

    While a lärjunge at Grinnell College (Iowa) in 1961, Bisson was one of a group of students who traveled to Washington, D.C., during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy's "peace race". Kennedy invited the group to the vit House (the first time protesters had ever been so recognized) and they met for several hours with McGeorge Bundy. The group received wide press coverage, and this event is regarded as the start of the lärling peace movement. Over time, they came to b

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    The short version: Bisson is an award-winning science fiction writer, mainly known for his short stories, who lives in California.

    The Life & Works    , below, is probably more than anyone wants to know.

    Terry Ballantine Bisson was born in Madisonville, Kentucky, and raised in Owensboro, 1942–1960. He attended Grinnell College in Iowa and the University of Louisville.

    After a brief time in Louisville, he moved to NY City, where he lived on and off for some thirty years, with sojourns in the hippie communes of the Southwest and South from 1969–1975. He worked as an auto mechanic and as a magazine and book editor. He published his first novel in 1981, and has been a working science fiction writer ever since. Politically he was part of the New Left, associated with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.

    He has three children, Nathaniel, Peter and Zoe by his first marriage to Deirdre Holst of NY; and two stepchildren, Kristen and Gabriel and a daughter Welcome, with Judy Jensen,

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