Phyllis Gotlieb

{{Short description|Canadian novelist and poet}}

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| birth_name = Phyllis Fay Bloom

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| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario

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| death_place = Toronto, Ontario

| resting_place = Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Poet, novelist

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| children = Leo Gotlieb
Margaret Gotlieb
Jane Lipson

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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=

  • Sunburst. New York: Fawcett, 1964.
  • Birthstones. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007.

==Dahlgren==

  • O Master Caliban! New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
  • Heart of Red Iron. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

==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=

  • Son of the Morning and Other Stories. New York: Ace, 1983.
  • Blue Apes. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.

=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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