On May 1, 1969, he quit to become a full-time writer, and thereafter concentrated on writing novels in order to maintain his income. He deliberately progressed from short-shorts to novelettes to novellas and finally to novel-length works by 1965. Social Security Administration in Cleveland, Ohio, and then in Baltimore, Maryland, spending his evenings writing science fiction. thesis was entitled Two traditions and Cyril Tourneur: an examination of morality and humor comedy conventions in The Revenger's Tragedy.īetween 19 he worked for the U.S. He was accepted to Columbia University in New York and specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, graduating with an M.A.

In the fall of 1955, he began attending Western Reserve University and graduated with a B.A. In high school, he became the editor of the school newspaper and joined the Creative Writing Club.

Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio, the only child of Polish immigrant Joseph Frank Żelazny and Irish-American Josephine Flora Sweet. And Call Me Conrad (1965), subsequently published under the title This Immortal (1966) and then the novel Lord of Light (1967). He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo Award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel. Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. Lord of Light, The Chronicles of Amber, Isle of the Dead, The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories, Doorways in the Sand, Eye of Cat, Unicorn Variations, A Night in the Lonesome October New Wave (although he denounced the term himself)

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