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	Judith Merril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 - September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer and political activist.
		Her first paid writing was in other genres, but in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth) and some stories.
		Their daughter Merril Zissman was born in December 1942.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Merril (451 words)

	Emily Pohl-Weary interview
		Judith believed that her mother raised her to be a man, to be intelligent, not pretty.
		Judith Merril was also an influential public figure and cultural critic, who wrote non-fiction articles and frequently spoke for current affairs shows.
		Judith’s love for Toronto eroded over the years, and that contributed to her pessimism at the end of her life.
	www.btlbooks.com /Links/merril__interview.htm (1387 words)

	Review of The Life and Works of Judith Merril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Judith Merril was born Josephine Judith Grossman in Manhattan in 1923.
		Merril writes the minutia of Deborah's survival with aching clarity; Deborah has to take care of her brother and also deal with survivor's guilt and her unwillingness to check the front part of the rocket where her parent's bodies would be.
		Merril was proud of what was present back then, and she could only be bursting with pride up to her death in 1997, by which time the Canadian sf had exploded (and things only seem to be getting exponentially better).
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/merril.htm (4532 words)

	Judith Merril 1923-1997
		Judith is survived in the United States by daughter Merril Allen, grandsons Kevin and Gregg, and their families, and in Canada by daughter Ann Pohl and her family, including grandchildren Emily, Tobias, Julia and Daniel.
		Judith specified having an office in the building where her donation was housed for as long as she lived.
		Judith Merril touched the lives of many, many people over the years and whether that touch was tender or a swift kick to one's motivational backside, it was always honest and honestly intended to help rather than harm.
	www.torcon3.on.ca /about/merril.html (1801 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: A Judith Merril Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Merril attended WisCon (the feminist science fiction conference) in May, 1996, as Guest of Honor and read from her memoirs to the great delight of those present.
		Merril is well known for works such as those collected in Daughters of Earth, and equally if not better known for her editorial work.
		Merril was a giant among science fiction, and proof that women have always made important contributions to the literature.
	www.feministsf.org /femsf/authors/merril.html (811 words)

	Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary: Better to Have Loved
		Merril presents the life she chose to lead in an unapologetic fashion, which is refreshing, but it can also distance her from those who disagree with some of her activities or political causes.
		Similarly, although in later chapters Merril repeatedly refers to her need to leave the United States, she never cites any specifics about why she felt the country was becoming more repressive, aside from some general comments about, for instance, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
		Throughout her career, Merril had an affect on the field of science fiction and its associated fandom, although she tends to downplay that role throughout the book with what appears to be real modesty.
	www.sfsite.com /%7Esilverag/merril.html (589 words)

	Judith Merril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Judith Merril (January 21, 1923, New York, New York - September 12, 1997, Canada) was an North American science fiction author and anthologist.
		Merril was a writer from her youth.She published her first stories in the late 1940s.
		She began an endowment at the Toronto Public Library for the collection ofall science fiction published in the English language (the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy).
	www.therfcc.org /judith-merril-140156.html (133 words)

	SFWA Obituaries: Judith Merril, 1923-1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We are very sorry to report that Judith Merril died of congestive heart failure during the night of Friday September 12, 1997.
		JUDITH MERRIL, noted science fiction author, anthologist and international humanist, died on Friday, September 12, 1997 at the cardiac unit of Toronto General Hospital in her 75th year.
		She is survived in the United States by daughter Merril Allen, grandsons Kevin and Gregg, and their families, and in Canada by daughter Ann Pohl and her family, including grandchildren Emily, Tobias, Julia and Daniel.
	www.sfwa.org /news/merril.htm (347 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Merril Judith
		Although Merril takes an early pop at sanitised SF autobiographies (presumably referring to ex-husband Fred Pohl's The Way the Future Was), editor Emily openly admits to cutting some of her juicier revelations; yesterday's ex-husbands are still today's cherished grandfathers.
		I was open to the possibility that Merril was an influential SF author, or even, like Gardner Dozois, a talented writer who sacrificed her own career to help others.
		I can only assume that there was so little of the true Merril left to work with, that the best Emily could hope for was a basic chronology of her grandmother's life, with a couple of asides on the way.
	www.geometry.net /authors_bk/merril_judith.html (705 words)

	The Mumpsimus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Merril tends to be best remembered as an anthologist and reviewer, and she deserves to be remembered for those tasks, having been one of the defining voices of SF in the '50s and '60s.
		Merril's depiction of Toby is sharp: he is frustrated by the lies adults tell him, and he sees through many of their disguises, and yet at the same time he is not able to comprehend the real situation in the second half of the story.
		Merril succeeds because she focuses the story on a world not so different from our own, and she uses the viewpoints to explore specific and well-defined actions within that world.
	mumpsimus.blogspot.com /2004/01/unjustly-neglected-dead-center-by.html (974 words)

	Film Education for the Black Bear Film Festival: The Film Salon @ The Columns
		The late Judith Merril, an author and anthologist still remembered by a few older Milford residents, moved here in the wake of similar moves by author/critic Damon Knight, author/critic James Blish, and Blish’s wife (Judy’s former roommate), Virginia (nee Kidd).
		Judith Merril (pictured at left), Damon Knight, James Blish and Virginia Kidd Emden were originally science fiction aficionados belonging to The Futurians, a New York fan club that believed in the future, science, technology - and science fiction.
		In the 1960's, it was Judy Merril of the "Milford Mafia" who declared science fiction dead and speculative fiction (SF) raised from its ashes.
	www.blackbearfilm.com /education/educationsaloncolumns.html (630 words)

	SF Canada Articles - Judith Merril, Cont'd
		It was at the Boréal '82 SF convention in Chicoutimi that I met Judith Merril for the first time, I mean other than through her writings.
		Of Judith, I had only seen, at that time, her classic "That Only A Mother" and some other short stories, only in translation, but I very much liked what she did and was extremely impressed by her talent as a writer.
		The next day, when we met again, the first thing that Judith did was to hand me, with a smile that I will never forget, two of her books with a gesture so natural, so elegant and so generous that just remembering it today moves me all over again.
	www.sfcanada.ca /spring99/merril.htm (780 words)

	What If? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Science fiction writer Judith Merril, who died shortly after the filming, rocketed to success with her first story " That Only A Mother" in 1948.
		Judith Merril was in the illustrious company of Arthur Clarke and Carl Sagan in the formation of the Planetary Society, a group to contemplate the universe with science, imagination and philosophy.
		Even those who are not afficionados of science fiction may want to take another look at the genre after being in the company of this passionate, politically committed and daringly inventive feminist, a pace setter in her field.
	www.filmakers.com /indivs/WhatIf.htm (229 words)

	Judith Merril
		With a literary approach to science fiction, Merril was influential in setting the course of modern science fiction.
		Judith Merril - Judith Merril (Juliet Grossman; pseudonyms Ernest Hamilton, Cyril Judd, Judith Merril, Rose Sharon,...
		Judith Merril and Rachel Carson: reflections on their "potent fictions" of science.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0281491.html (194 words)

	Judith Merril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Known as "the little mother of science fiction," Judith Merril burst onto the New York literary scene in 1948 with a disturbing story about nuclear radiation.
		Merril's life was a microcosm of alternative cultural and political movements.
		In 1968, Merril moved to Canada with the draft dodgers, to live and work in Rochdale, Toronto’s student-run university.
	www.judithmerril.com (247 words)

	Science Fiction Movie & TV Reviews: Confirmation; What If...; My Favorite Martian
		Through Merril's memoirs (as read by actress Jackie Burroughs), interviews with members of the Toronto SF and intellectual community, excerpts from her fiction and clips of films based on her writing, audiences are shown the major events of Merril's adult life.
		Outrageous aspects of Merril's life, her political activism, the association with Toronto's alternative Rochdale College--not to mention the clips of her starring in the Canadian version of Doctor Who--never fail to entertain.
		One of the first anecdotes Merril tells is particularly pleasing, as she describes her discovery of a literature of ideas between the torrid pulp covers of a magazine she had only opened because there was nothing else available for her to read.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue96/screen.html (1790 words)

	Judith Merril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		1923: Judith Josephine Grossman is born on January 21 in Boston to parents Ethel and Samuel (Shlomo) Grossman.
		Judith attends the Chicago Democratic Convention with her daughter Ann, where Vietnam War opponent Eugene McCarthy campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination, but loses the race to Hubert Humphrey.
		"Judith Merrill was not only a vital member of the literary community, but a vital person, in the largest sense of that word.
	www.judithmerril.com /about.html (1140 words)

	City of Toronto, Toronto Book Awards - 2003
		Born into early Zionist circles, she ventured as a teenager into the Trotskyism of the 1930s and 40s.From there she became involved with emergent science fiction, resistance to the war in Vietnam, the free university movement and tuning-in and tuning-out.
		In 1968, Merril moved to Canada to live and work in Rochdale, Toronto's student-run university, and founded the Merril Collection of Speculative Literature at the Toronto Public Library.
		When Merril died, she left Pohl-Weary with a partially completed manuscript, a dozen tapes of interviews they had conducted during her last year, and complete instructions about everything she wanted included in the book.
	www.city.toronto.on.ca /book_awards/book_awards_2003/better_to_have_loved.htm (1265 words)

	village voice > books > The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier; Better to Have Loved: The ...
		Merril's memoirs are, of course, more anecdotal and intimate, but Larbalestier, who spent several years interviewing aging legends, peppers her more formal analysis with plenty of feisty reminiscence and poignant commentary.
		Merril got early work as a freelance ghostwriter, and fell in with a fraternal think tank of SF fans that included Isaac Asimov and Merril's second husband, Frederik Pohl.
		Merril's 1968 relocation to Canada removed her somewhat from the American scene at a time when women were beginning to contribute many of the texts most celebrated in The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0229/cooper.php (1279 words)

	Better to Have Loved -- Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary
		The sense of incompleteness is increased by the pictures accompanying the text: there are pictures of older daughter Merril Zissman's children and grandchildren, but almost no mention of the daughter herself, or any relationship which could have produced offspring.
		There's a picture of Fred Pohl, Elizabeth Ann Hull, and Judith Merril sitting at a dining room table in Toronto in 1995, engaged in apparently friendly conversation, and no mention of the visit or any other contact other than unavoidable public contact at conventions after their divorce four decades earlier.
		Pohl-Weary says in her introduction that much didn't get included because Judith Merril didn't get it written herself before her health deteriorated so that she couldn't, and then they didn't manage to do interviews on much that should have been included before she died.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Carey/bettertohaveloved.htm (398 words)

	ipedia.com: Judith Merril Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Judith Merril was an North American science fiction author and anthologist.
		In the late 1960s, citing what she called undemocratic suppression of anti-war activities by the U.S. government, she moved to Canada.
		She began an endowment at the Toronto Public Library for the collection of all science fiction published in the English language (the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy).
	www.ipedia.com /judith_merril.html (177 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Press Release: Writer in Residence at Merril Collection
		Robert J. Sawyer will be Writer in Residence at The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy (the SF special collection of the Toronto Public Library) from April 1 to June 30, 2003; he will be the first writer to hold this post since Judith Merril herself in 1987.
		The Merril Collection, founded in 1970 with the donation by famed writer and editor Judith Merril of her personal SF library, has grown into the world's largest public-library reference collection of science fiction.
		Sawyer, who won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1995 (for The Terminal Experiment) and has been nominated six times for the Hugo Award, is the author of 15 SF novels, including the just-released Humans.
	www.sfwriter.com /prmerril.htm (446 words)

	Judith Merril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During and just after World War II, Merril was the only woman associated with a group of young science-fiction enthusiasts known as the Futurians, whose members included Isaac Asimov, James Blish, C.M. Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl.
		She and Pohl were married in 1949 and divorced in 1953.
		Merril, who was born Juliet Grossman in New York City, adopted the name Judith Merril early in her career.
	www.snowcrest.net /ksnow/writingwell/sciencefiction/jmerril.htm (197 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Judith Merril: An Appreciation
		She was a catalyst, a great starter of things: founder of Hydra North; founder of what's now called The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, part of the Toronto Public Library; founder of the Tesseracts series of Canadian SF anthologies published out of Edmonton.
		She was, I think, always looking to recapture the past — perhaps an odd thing for a science-fiction writer to long for.
		I think, perhaps, Judy was surprised by what a force she turned out to be, and by what an impact she had had on the genre.
	www.sfwriter.com /merril.htm (1753 words)

	Judith Merril
		Judith Merril was born in New York and immigrated to Toronto Ontario in 1968.
		Judith donated her collection of 5000 SF books to the Toronto Public Library in 1970.
		First named "The Spaced Out Library", the name was changed to "The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy" in 1990.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_sf/pages/authors/merril.htm (145 words)

	The Friends of the Merril Collection
		The Friends of the Merril Collection is an organization through which members of the science fiction community can support The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy.
		To act as a resource for The Merril Collection and other public and private collections in Canada and elsewhere in consultation with the staff of the Toronto Public Libary Board.
		The Friends of the Merril Collection is not a fan organization; it is a group of members with a common interest: to promote the collection and to make it the best public collection of speculative fiction in the world.
	www.friendsofmerril.org (265 words)

	The Friends of the Merril Collection - SOL Rising
		Judith Merril was one of the first women writers in the field, and one of the first to make a living at it.
		Judith's parents were intellectuals who had very high expectations of themselves and each other, they encouraged her to write, and inculcated their Zionism into her.
		While our organization has officially been around since 1981, most of the groups in attendance were formed within the last five years, primarily in response to budget cuts and/or legislative changes affecting their respective libraries.
	www.friendsofmerril.org /sol18.html (5463 words)

	MERRIL, Judith - personal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Judy was associated with the later group of New York Futurians about the time she met Fred Pohl...they were married briefly.
		Judy almost always attended, even directed, the SF writer's gatherings at Milford, PA. Merril's anthologies (56-68) of the year's best Science Fiction set the standards followed later by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim.
		Merril was the given name of Judith's first daughter and she adopted "Judith Merril" as a pen name.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/merril.html (162 words)

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