Phyllis Gotlieb

Canadian novelist and poet

Calvin Gotlieb

(m. 1949)

ChildrenLeo Gotlieb
Margaret Gotlieb
Jane Lipson

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 – July 14, 2009)^[1]^[2] was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

Biography

Born of Jewish heritage^[3] in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA).

In 1961, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems.^[4] 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.^[5]

Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliography

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Science fiction books

Sunburst. New York: Fawcett, 1964.
Why Should I Have All the Grief? Toronto: Macmillan, 1969.
O Master Caliban! New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
A Judgement of Dragons. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980.
Emperor, Swords, Pentacles. New York: Ace, 1982.
Son of the Morning and Other Stories. New York: Ace, 1983.
The Kingdom of the Cats. New York: Ace, 1985.
Heart of Red Iron. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.^[7]
Blue Apes. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.^[7]
Flesh and Gold. New York: Tor, 1998.^[7]
Violent Stars. New York: Tor, 1999.^[7]
Mindworld. New York: Tor, 2002.^[7]
Birthstones. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007.^[7]

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.

Notes

^ Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University.^[6]

References

^ Phyllis Gotlieb Service Details
^ "Phyllis Gotlieb, sci-fi writer and poet, dies at 83". CBC. July 15, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
^ Biography
^ Boyd, Colin (December 16, 2013). "Phyllis Gotlieb". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada.
^ The Sunburst Award
^ "Phyllis Gotlieb," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 27, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Selected Poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb Archived 4 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine," Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, April 27, 2001.

External links

Obituary by Cory Doctorow
Phyllis Gotlieb at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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 (Phyllis Fay Gotlieb fonds, R4738) are held at Library and Archives Canada