Phyllis Gotlieb

Phyllis Gotlieb
Born	Phyllis Fay Bloom (1926-05-25)May 25, 1926 Toronto, Ontario
Died	Toronto, Ontario
Occupation	poet, novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	Canadian
Education	post secondary
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Notable awards	Sunburst Award Prix Aurora Award
Spouse	Calvin Gotlieb (m. 1949)
Children	Leo Gotlieb Margaret Gotlieb Jane Lipson

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom (May 25, 1926 – July 14, 2009) BA, MA was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

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

The Sunburst Award 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 Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.

Her widower is Calvin Gotlieb, a computer science professor; they lived in Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliography

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. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 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
• Phyllis Loves Kelly. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014.

Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy Brock University.

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))