Born in New York. He grew up and studied in Brooklyn (first a public school, then a technical school). At the age of 17, he participated in the First World Science Fiction Convention (Philadelphia), at the age of 19, together with A. Asimov, S. Kornblatt, D. Knight founded the Futurian Society. At the same time, he began publishing two NF magazines - "Astonishing Stories" and "Super Science Stories", where he published his own works under different pseudonyms. After serving in the US Air Force (1943-1945),
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Born in New York. He grew up and studied in Brooklyn (first a public school, then a technical school). At the age of 17, he participated in the First World Science Fiction Convention (Philadelphia), at the age of 19, together with A. Asimov, S. Kornblatt, D. Knight founded the Futurian Society. At the same time, he began publishing two NF magazines - "Astonishing Stories" and "Super Science Stories", where he published his own works under different pseudonyms. After serving in the US Air Force (1943-1945), he was a literary agent for a long time. Until 1969, he published the journals If" and Galaxy". Paul began publishing under his own name in 1953. During these years he created several works in co-authorship with S. Kornblatt ("Space merchants", 1953; "Search for the sky", 1954; "Gladiator by law", 1955, etc.). The story "Meeting", written by F. Paul and S. Kornblatt, won the "Hugo" award in 1973. From 1954 to 1991, Frederick Paul collaborated with J. Williamson (their most famous works are the trilogy “Child of Stars”, 1969, and the dilogy “Cuckoo Saga”, 1983). Until the early 70s, Paul’s stories were more successful than novels, but after the cessation of active publishing, he showed himself as a talented novelist. The first novel, published by him after leaving “on free bread”, “Man plus”, received the “Nebula” award (1976), the second – “Gates” – “Nebula”, “Hugo” and the memorial prize of J. Campbell (1977). In recent years, Paul has published novels "Jam", "Years of the City", "Rise of the Black Star", "The World at the End of Time" and many others.