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Avram Davidson
American writer
1923 – 1993aged 70
A writer who moved fluidly between science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction and edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the early 1960s, winning a Hugo Award, three World Fantasy Awards, and an Edgar Award across genres most writers stay confined to. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called him "perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author," and a posthumous story collection won the Locus Award in 1999.