Lives of X

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, (1971).

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Hardcover. First edition. Bumped at the top of the spine, else about near fine in age-toned and lightly stained good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the title page to John Drury Clark: "for Doc - in old friendship - and because there are too damned few of us left. Live forever! John Ciardi!" Clark, in addition to writing an important book on rocket propulsion, as well as a couple of stories in "Astounding Stories", also was instrumental in revitalizing and promoting the career of Robert E. Howard. He was college roommates with L. Sprague de Camp, who he encouraged to write science fiction stories, introduced de Camp to his sometime co-writer Fletcher Pratt, and eventually married Pratt's widow Inga. His previous marriage prompted Pratt to form a club of science fiction writers and scientists (including George O. Smith) called The Trap Door Spiders, so that they wouldn't have to socialize with Clark's first wife. Isaac Asimov later fictionalized the club as a group of mystery solvers, The Black Widowers.

Item #389075
ISBN: 0813506689

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Item #389075 Lives of X. John CIARDI.
Lives of X

John Ciardi
birth name: John Anthony Ciardi
born: 6/24/1916
died: 3/30/1986

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American poet, critic, and translator who contributed to making poetry accessibleto both adults and children. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore