obit from Warren Tribune Chronicle, dated Wednesday, July 27, 1977:
Memorial services for Edmond M. Hamilton of Lancaster, Calif., formerly of Kinsman, a well-known writer who died Feb. 1, will be held Saturday at 2:30 pm at the Baumgardner Funeral Home, Kinsman. The Rev. Robert Culp will officiate, and the cremains will be buried in Kinsman Cemetery.
Mr. Hamilton was dean of American science-fiction writers.
Survivors include his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton, a noted authoress; two sisters, Miss Esther Hamilton, a columnist for the Youngstown Vindicator, and Mrs. John Porter Sherwood, Jr., both of Kinsman.
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Science fiction author. Edmond Moore Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He was raised in Youngstown and in New Castle, a town just across the state line in Pennsylvania. He graduated high school at age 14 and started college at Westminster in nearby New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He dropped out of college at age 17. He was first published in 1926 in the magazine "Weird Tales." From 1926 to 1948, this magazine would publish 79 stories of Hamilton's. "He is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, "The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror,"" published in 1936. (Wikipedia) Hamilon wrote detective and crime stories in the late 1930s, a departure from his science fiction writing made necessary by the monetary demands of the Great Depression. He developed the Captain Future character in the 1940s for younger readers, resulting in a new, younger fanbase for him. He began writing for DC Comics in 1946, mostly for their stories of Superman and Batman. Hamilton married screenwriter and science fiction author Leigh Brackett in 1946 in California and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio, a small town just north of his native Youngstown. Hamilton and Brackett rarely co-wrote stories. Their only formal collaboration was published in 2005, years after their deaths, "Stark and the Star Kings." In 1976, Toei Animation produced an anime adaption of his Captain Future novels, giving Hamilton yet another new and different fan base.
Memorial services for Edmond M. Hamilton of Lancaster, Calif., formerly of Kinsman, a well-known writer who died Feb. 1, will be held Saturday at 2:30 pm at the Baumgardner Funeral Home, Kinsman. The Rev. Robert Culp will officiate, and the cremains will be buried in Kinsman Cemetery.
Mr. Hamilton was dean of American science-fiction writers.
Survivors include his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton, a noted authoress; two sisters, Miss Esther Hamilton, a columnist for the Youngstown Vindicator, and Mrs. John Porter Sherwood, Jr., both of Kinsman.
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Science fiction author. Edmond Moore Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He was raised in Youngstown and in New Castle, a town just across the state line in Pennsylvania. He graduated high school at age 14 and started college at Westminster in nearby New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He dropped out of college at age 17. He was first published in 1926 in the magazine "Weird Tales." From 1926 to 1948, this magazine would publish 79 stories of Hamilton's. "He is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, "The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror,"" published in 1936. (Wikipedia) Hamilon wrote detective and crime stories in the late 1930s, a departure from his science fiction writing made necessary by the monetary demands of the Great Depression. He developed the Captain Future character in the 1940s for younger readers, resulting in a new, younger fanbase for him. He began writing for DC Comics in 1946, mostly for their stories of Superman and Batman. Hamilton married screenwriter and science fiction author Leigh Brackett in 1946 in California and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio, a small town just north of his native Youngstown. Hamilton and Brackett rarely co-wrote stories. Their only formal collaboration was published in 2005, years after their deaths, "Stark and the Star Kings." In 1976, Toei Animation produced an anime adaption of his Captain Future novels, giving Hamilton yet another new and different fan base.
obit from Warren Tribune Chronicle, dated Wednesday, July 27, 1977:
Memorial services for Edmond M. Hamilton of Lancaster, Calif., formerly of Kinsman, a well-known writer who died Feb. 1, will be held Saturday at 2:30 pm at the Baumgardner Funeral Home, Kinsman. The Rev. Robert Culp will officiate, and the cremains will be buried in Kinsman Cemetery.
Mr. Hamilton was dean of American science-fiction writers.
Survivors include his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton, a noted authoress; two sisters, Miss Esther Hamilton, a columnist for the Youngstown Vindicator, and Mrs. John Porter Sherwood, Jr., both of Kinsman.
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Science fiction author. Edmond Moore Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He was raised in Youngstown and in New Castle, a town just across the state line in Pennsylvania. He graduated high school at age 14 and started college at Westminster in nearby New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He dropped out of college at age 17. He was first published in 1926 in the magazine "Weird Tales." From 1926 to 1948, this magazine would publish 79 stories of Hamilton's. "He is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, "The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror,"" published in 1936. (Wikipedia) Hamilon wrote detective and crime stories in the late 1930s, a departure from his science fiction writing made necessary by the monetary demands of the Great Depression. He developed the Captain Future character in the 1940s for younger readers, resulting in a new, younger fanbase for him. He began writing for DC Comics in 1946, mostly for their stories of Superman and Batman. Hamilton married screenwriter and science fiction author Leigh Brackett in 1946 in California and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio, a small town just north of his native Youngstown. Hamilton and Brackett rarely co-wrote stories. Their only formal collaboration was published in 2005, years after their deaths, "Stark and the Star Kings." In 1976, Toei Animation produced an anime adaption of his Captain Future novels, giving Hamilton yet another new and different fan base.
Memorial services for Edmond M. Hamilton of Lancaster, Calif., formerly of Kinsman, a well-known writer who died Feb. 1, will be held Saturday at 2:30 pm at the Baumgardner Funeral Home, Kinsman. The Rev. Robert Culp will officiate, and the cremains will be buried in Kinsman Cemetery.
Mr. Hamilton was dean of American science-fiction writers.
Survivors include his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton, a noted authoress; two sisters, Miss Esther Hamilton, a columnist for the Youngstown Vindicator, and Mrs. John Porter Sherwood, Jr., both of Kinsman.
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Science fiction author. Edmond Moore Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He was raised in Youngstown and in New Castle, a town just across the state line in Pennsylvania. He graduated high school at age 14 and started college at Westminster in nearby New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He dropped out of college at age 17. He was first published in 1926 in the magazine "Weird Tales." From 1926 to 1948, this magazine would publish 79 stories of Hamilton's. "He is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, "The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror,"" published in 1936. (Wikipedia) Hamilon wrote detective and crime stories in the late 1930s, a departure from his science fiction writing made necessary by the monetary demands of the Great Depression. He developed the Captain Future character in the 1940s for younger readers, resulting in a new, younger fanbase for him. He began writing for DC Comics in 1946, mostly for their stories of Superman and Batman. Hamilton married screenwriter and science fiction author Leigh Brackett in 1946 in California and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio, a small town just north of his native Youngstown. Hamilton and Brackett rarely co-wrote stories. Their only formal collaboration was published in 2005, years after their deaths, "Stark and the Star Kings." In 1976, Toei Animation produced an anime adaption of his Captain Future novels, giving Hamilton yet another new and different fan base.
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