Lester Delrey

Novelist

Birthday June 2, 1915

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Minnesota

DEATH DATE May 10, 1993 (77)

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About

An American science fiction author and editor, he is most famous for his Winston Science Fiction series. The first novel in the series, Marooned on Mars, was published in 1952.

Before Fame

He worked as a short order cook at the White Tower Restaurant in New York.

Trivia

He was awarded the 1972 E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction by the New England Science Fiction Association.

Family Life

He married Helen Schlaz in 1945.

Associated With

He was a member of an all-male literary banqueting club, the Trap Door Spiders, which was the basis for Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers.