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	AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson was one of the great masters of short fiction of the twentieth century, a writer who won the major awards in the science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery genres—the Hugo, Edgar, and World Fantasy Awards—while constantly pushing at the boundaries of those genres.
		Davidson was in Palestine just before the creation of Israel in May 1948, and apparently served as a medic in the newly-formed Israeli armed forces, and then worked for a while as a shepherd.
		Davidson travelled to British Honduras in the mid-1960s, and lived there on two occasions; more than a decade later he drew on his experiences there in the series of novellas featuring Jack Limekiller in the fictional colony of British Hidalgo.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/davidson3/davidson3_bio.html (864 words)

	DAVIDSON, Avram - personal data
		Avram spent four years during WW II in the Navy as a hospital corpsman in the South Pacific and China.
		Avram was intelligent, gentle, gracious, and strived to be pleasant at all times.
		Avram's life was always on the edge of being continuously desperate...and it forced him into acting like a manic depressive...even though he was not.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/davidson.html (873 words)

	Avram Davidson Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 - May 8, 1993) was a crime fiction, fantasy fiction, and science fiction writer and editor.
		Davidson succeeded with this technique because of a good ear for the way that people talk, an encyclopedic store of obscure and fascinating knowledge, and an irresistibly comic view of the world that sees virtually everyone as eccentric.
		Davidson served as a US Marine Corps medic in the Pacific during World War II, and began his writing career as a Talmudic scholar around 1950.
	search.localcolorart.com /search/encyclopedia/Avram_Davidson (590 words)

	Cinescape - Home - Editorial
		Davidson, a Hugo winner, was born in 1923 (and died in 1993), but his intense interest in history caused him, as represented in the present anthology, to turn his literary attentions to subjects like American colonialism, the Mormon settlement of Utah, and gaslit Victorian Englandseemingly unusual topics for a science fiction author.
		Davidson wrote his fiction with the clear intention of mimicking the syntax and composition of the time in which his tales were set; and to this reviewer, who is admittedly a little undereducated on the subject of nineteenth century fiction, Davidson’s work seems to achieve an admirable level of authenticity.
		Davidson’s writing can be most clearly compared with that of Arthur Conan Doyle, which is appropriate since one of the included tales (called “The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach”) is a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, written from the point of view of the criminal.
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	The AVRAM DAVIDSON Website - Comments on Selected Stories
		Avram Davidson's writings contain and call for a good measure of delirium: not incoherence or ignorance, but the inspired capacity to follow an idea, a phrase or a cadence in a new direction, to take a point a little bit further than its simply logical conclusion.
		In "Naples," Avram charts the path to a chilling revelation with the sights and smells of a tourist ramble in a poor quarter.
		Avram's notions are as exotic and as arcane as anything mentioned by Bowles, but the unglamorous settings of his stories sometimes provide such effective camouflage that the exotic and unpredictable aspects of American life are overlooked.
	www.avramdavidson.org /select.htm (1709 words)

	Avram Davidson biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson (March 23, 1923 - May 9, 1993) was a science fiction writer and editor.
		Davidson succeeds with this technique because of a good ear for the way that people talk, an encylopedic store of obscure and fascinating knowledge, and an irresistably comic view of the world that sees virtually everyone as eccentric.
		Although he had a reputation for being quick to anger when anyone tampered with his work or misunderstood it, Davidson was also greatly in demand as a story-teller, and well-known among his friends for his extreme generosity.
	avram-davidson.biography.ms (277 words)

	Avram Davidson Novels
		Avram Davidson is one of my favorite authors, but his reputation, with me as with most anyone, is founded on his short fiction (and, I suppose, to some extent on his exotic nonfiction, as with Adventures in Unhistory).
		Davidson's strengths were a sharp moral sense, a fascination with curious minutiae, a quirky imagination, obfuscation to good effect, and a glorious sprung prose rhythm.
		Davidson earned a Nebula nomination for this, though it should be noted that in those days (this was the first year of the Nebula awards), the rules were different, and the list of nominated works is rather long.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/novelsad.htm (1732 words)

	Literary Manuscripts Collection
		McCauley, Robie to Avram Davidson. December 11, 1974. TLS, 1 leaf.
		S3-100 Disel, Tom to Avram Davidson. February 1, 1975, re: poem "The Trojans," new anthology New Constellations. TLS, 1 leaf.
		S3-100 Wilson, Gahan to Avram Davidson. December 27, 1974, re: Polly Charms. TLS, 1 leaf.
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	The Avram Davidson Treasury - Avram Davidson - Palm Reader eBooks
		Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century.
		For those already acquainted with Avram Davidson's work, this book is a joy; for those who have the pleasure of encountering his work for the first time, it is a voyage of discovery.
		"Davidson had one of the most original imaginations in the history of American SF and fantasy...and he deserves to be enjoyed by generations of ordinary readers rather than left to the dubious mercy of SF academics....
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/100688-ebook.htm (529 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Avram Davidson Treasury
		Avram Davidson's first published SF work came in 1954 with "My Boy Friend's Name is Jello" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and continued to sell stories to such magazines as Asimov's SF until his death in 1993.
		Davidson was editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1965.
		Davidson was at the same time an instantly recognizable writer, with an eccentric and lovable prose style, and a writer of great range.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/avra45.htm (1428 words)

	Avram Davidson: Four Collections of Avram Davidson
		Avram Davidson may have been one of the most unstereotypical science fiction and fantasy authors ever to grace the pages of the magazines.
		Davidson's writing could, at times, be very inaccessible, and "My Boyfriend's Name is Jell-O," which is a stream-of-conscious tale based on children's jump-rope rhymes, may be off-putting to many readers unfamiliar with Davidson's amazing narrative skills.
		Although Davidson never managed to graduate college, he demonstrates himself to be a font of arcane knowledge, dropping references and allusions right and left, simply assuming that his readers will understand him.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/300.html (1331 words)

	Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Avram Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Davidson wrote both science fiction and fantasy, but his distinctive voice is best heard in his better fantasy work, none of which can readily be mistaken for that of any other author.
		A reader new to Davidson must learn to slow himself down to that measured pace, to accept the story as Davidson chooses to measure it out: it is not beer, nor yet even wine, but cognac that we drink with Davidson, in measured sips that we roll over our palates.
		Davidson's insufficiently known (possibly owing to the original paperback edition's having a cover suggesting thud-and-blunder barbarians) Ursus of Ultima Thule is set in an "Arctic Atlantis" (again Davidson's own term), a now-lost empire of the north, like yet unlike the real Scandinavia.
	greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/AvramDavidson.php (2425 words)

	About Avram Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson 1923-1993) was author of nineteen published novels and more than two hundred short stories and essays collected in more than a dozen books, won the Hugo Award in science fiction, the Queen's Award and Edgar Award in the mystery genre, and the World Fantasy Award (three times).
		Davidson may be always doomed to be underappreciated, but he remains a true original, and in his own subtle way, one of the greats.
		The real richness of Davidson's work (but especially of his novels) is their otherwordliness, their moods and their humor, the manner of their telling and the curiousness of their worlds.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /author/Davidson.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/authors.html (537 words)

	SciFan: Books: Avram Davidson Treasury, The by Avram Davidson (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
		The Avram Davidson Treasury may be the most satisfying short-story collection of the decade.
		Davidson (1923-1993), one of science fiction and fantasy's greatest writers, was "a master shaper of small stories," writes Alan Dean Foster in his introduction to "Or the Grasses Grow." Foster is joined in introducing the stories by dozens of extraordinary authors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, and many others.
		Davidson was clearly adored, and often emulated, despite his reputation for being somewhat curmudgeonly.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=2405 (601 words)

	Michael Swanwick Online: Introduction to Mutiny in Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson, in 1964, had a decade's experience as a science fiction writer behind him.
		Davidson, who was an observant Jew and who once told me that he thought about the Holocaust every day of his life, could not help but be intensely conscious of this aspect of his story.
		Avram Davidson had privately credited his wife, Grania, as co-creator of Mutiny in Space, for ideas she provided as he wrote it, but their marriage was over by the time the book saw print.
	www.michaelswanwick.com /nonfic/mutiny.html (1064 words)

	Recommended Reading: Reviews (D) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When reviewing collections and anthologies, there are two approaches that are commonly used: 1) if it is a short book, to mention briefly each of the stories in the book; 2) if it is a longer book, to touch on a few of the best works therein.
		With The Avram Davidson Treasury, neither approach is viable.
		Davidson is easily one of the best writers SF has produced, and this collection is filled with masterpiece after masterpiece after stunning masterpiece.
	www.panix.com /userdirs/mlk/sf/reviews/d.xml (794 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Davidson had one of the most original imaginations in the history of American sf and fantasy--genres he did not worry much about distinguishing from each other--and deserves to be enjoyed by generations of ordinary readers rather than left to the dubious mercy of sf academics.
		Davidson had a dear whimsy, a weariness, and a bite that was, dare I say it, very Jewish.
		As a long-term reader of science fiction and an admirer of the writings of Avram Davidson the publication of this particular book was, for me, a noteworthy event.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312867298?v=glance (2316 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Containing 38 of Davidson's best pieces of short fiction and story-introductory tributes to him by nearly that many of his colleagues, this is necessarily a stout volume.
		Since Davidson possessed a willingness to listen only to his muse and an almost stereotypical lack of business sense, much of his work was out of print before his death in 1993.
		I'm a big Davidson fan, make no mistake: I come to this review not at all objective, and having reading all but a few of the stories already, many of them several times.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312867298 (1648 words)

	Rite of Passage and Robert Heinlein, 7
		Davidson was an Orthodox Jew who had fought in World War II and then in the initial Arab-Israeli War.
		And Davidson said it was a story told in the first person by a teenage girl.
		And even though what Davidson had to say was enough for me to be certain that Heinlein's story and mine weren't going to be confused with each other, a certain degree of dismay lingered.
	www.enter.net /~torve/critics/HeinleinRoP/rahrop7.htm (1872 words)

	Michael Swanwick Online: Whispers Through a Brass Tube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To be quite frank, that was almost certainly the only way Avram Davidson would have allowed a collaboration with the likes of me to occur.
		All I had to do was apply that same skewed sensibility that Davidson conveyed in his other comedies, and the jokes and situations popped into existence.
		The obvious solution was to break Davidson's story into fragments and interweave them with a second plotline, starting after Count Mar has hired his anti-sorcerer, but before Vergil Magus knows what's going on.
	www.michaelswanwick.com /nonfic/davidson.html (2158 words)

	Avram Davidson - Old Earth Books
		The stories featuring Jack Limekiller are rooted in Davidson's two-month visit to British Honduras in 1965 – 1966, when the question of independence was a burning issue in the colony.
		Davidson also drew upon his experiences during a prolonged period of residency circa 1968 – 1969.
		In "Bloody Man", for instance, Davidson dazzles by offering a half-dozen different registers of English, from the high-tone British university diction of an archbishop to the Caribbean inflected slang of the fl Baymen — and he gets them all down perfectly in a strange tale about a wounded ghost in need of benediction.
	www.oldearthbooks.com /davidson.htm (396 words)

	Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven by Avram Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avram Davidson was better known for his science fiction, but he also wrote a considerable amount for Jewish journals that were more autobiographical vignettes than short stories.
		The first part of this book is a collection of these pieces dating from his experiences during World War II to his death in 1993, with an editorial introduction and history of each short story.
		Davidson's stories are wonderful, hard to put down reading adventures, even if you aren't Jewish.
	www.myshelf.com /literary/01/everybodyhasomebody.htm (236 words)

	"The Boss in the Wall" by Avram Davidson & Grania Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boss in the Wall is an original, previously unpublished horror novella, which sprang from Avram Davidson's dream and was brought to life by Grania Davis' vision.
		Avram Davidson was one of the finest writers the fantasy field has had, endlessly inventive and uniquely vivid.
		Davidson and Davis have devised a story that works as both a chilling horror story and a sly satire of academia.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /book/The_Boss_in_the_Wall.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/books.html (698 words)

	The AVRAM DAVIDSON Website - About Avram Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It may be that Avram Davidson never realized that he was too brilliant in too many ways to be popular : too wickedly satiric, too erudite, too speculative, too well written, too intimately familiar with about fifteen different cultures.
		Obituary of Avram Davidson by Ed Ferman (from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1993)
		Obituary of Avram Davidson by Gardner Dozois (from Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1993)
	www.avramdavidson.org /about.htm (190 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Investigations of Avram Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The late Avram Davidson is well-represented by this collection edited by his former wife, Grania Davis, and Richard Lupoff.
		I have previously read and thought of Davidson as a science fiction writer, but this book demonstrates that he was a master of the mystery as well.
		The heat in a chinese laundry becomes palpable when Davidson describes a washman wiping his hands and bare torso before he folds an ironed shirt so that his persperation won't drip on the garment.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312199317 (677 words)

	SciFan: Books: Investigations of Avram Davidson, The by Avram Davidson (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, ...
		Avram Davidson published 15 novels under his own name plus 218 short stories before he died at the age of 70 in 1993.
		We know that writers of short stories need different sets of muscles to work their magic, which probably explains why Davidson never published a full-length mystery under his own name (although he ghosted several under the ubiquitous Ellery Queen byline).
		Like Bernard Malamud and Shirley Jackson, Avram Davidson brought a unique brand of charm, wit, and intrigue to the short-story form.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=2406 (523 words)

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