Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom (May 25, 1926 – July 14, 2009) BA, MA was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novelist and poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA).

The Sunburst Award

Sunburst Award

The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection.-History:The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst ....

 is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award

Aurora Award

The Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French...

 for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.

Her widower is Calvin Gotlieb

Calvin Gotlieb

Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, CM, FRSC is a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He is the Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto....

, a computer science professor; they lived in Toronto, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

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Fiction

• Who Knows One? Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961.
• 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.
• Blue Apes. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.
• Flesh and Gold. New York: Tor, 1998.
• Violent Stars. New York: Tor, 1999.
• Mindworld. New York: Tor, 2002.
• Birthstones - 2007

Poetry

• 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

Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University.

External links

• Obituary by Cory Doctorow
  Cory Doctorow
  Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
  
  
• 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))