Phyllis Gotlieb
{{Short description|Canadian novelist and poet}}
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| birth_name = Phyllis Fay Bloom
| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|05|25}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario
| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|07|14|1926|05|26}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario
| resting_place = Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
| occupation = Poet, novelist
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| alma_mater = University of Toronto
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| spouse = {{marriage|Calvin Gotlieb|1949}}
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| children = Leo Gotlieb
Margaret Gotlieb
Jane Lipson
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| awards = Prix Aurora Award
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Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926{{snd}} July 14, 2009)[http://www.benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails.aspx?snum=125855&fg=0 Phyllis Gotlieb Service Details]{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/phyllis-gotlieb-sci-fi-writer-and-poet-dies-at-83-1.824205|title=Phyllis Gotlieb, sci-fi writer and poet, dies at 83|date=July 15, 2009|website=CBC|access-date=February 8, 2021}} was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
Biography
Born of Jewish heritage[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/phyllis-fay-bloom-gotlieb-dlb2 Biography] in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA).
In 1961, John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press published Gotlieb's first collection of poems, the pamphlet Who Knows One{{cite encyclopedia |last=Boyd |first=Colin |title=Phyllis Gotlieb |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=16 December 2013 |publisher=Historica Canada |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/phyllis-gotlieb}} Her first novel, the science-fiction tale Sunburst, was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons. The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel.[http://www.sunburstaward.org/ The Sunburst Award]
Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in Toronto, Ontario.
Bibliography
{{efn|Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University."[http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Gotlieb.htm Phyllis Gotlieb]," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 27, 2011.}}
=Science fiction novels=
==Dahlgren==
==Starcats==
- A Judgment of Dragons. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980.
- Emperor, Swords, Pentacles. New York: Ace, 1982.
- The Kingdom of the Cats. New York: Ace, 1985.
==Flesh and Gold==
- Flesh and Gold. New York: Tor, 1998.
- Violent Stars. New York: Tor, 1999.
- Mindworld. New York: Tor, 2002."[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/411.html Selected Poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904063134/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/411.html |date=4 September 2010 }}," Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, April 27, 2001.
=Science fiction collections=
=Science fiction anthology=
- Tesseracts 2 with Douglas Barbour (1987)
=Novel=
- Why Should I Have All the Grief? Toronto: Macmillan, 1969.
=Poetry collections=
- Who Knows One? Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961.
- Within the Zodiac. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964.
- Ordinary Moving. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1974.
- The Works. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1978.
- Red Blood Black Ink White Paper: New and Selected Poems 1961–2001. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2002. – 2002
- Phyllis Loves Kelly. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014.
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External links
- [http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/15/rip-phyllis-gotleib.html Obituary] by Cory Doctorow
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100904063134/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/411.html Selected poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb] – Biography & 15 poems (Aquarius, as I was walking down the street, A Catful of Buttermilk, Death's Head, A Discourse, A Double Vision, First Person Demonstrative, Hospitality, Latitude, Ordinary, Moving, Red Black White, Seventh Seal, So Long It's Been, Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Toronto Ontario, What I Know (Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk))
- Archives of Phyllis Gotlieb [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=102859&lang=eng (Phyllis Fay Gotlieb fonds, R4738)] are held at Library and Archives Canada
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Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:20th-century Canadian novelists
Category:Canadian science fiction writers
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:Jewish Canadian writers
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:Canadian women science fiction and fantasy writers
Category:Novelists from Toronto