Phyllis Gotlieb

Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Gotlieb in 1982
Born	Phyllis Fay Bloom (1926-05-25)May 25, 1926 Toronto, Ontario
Died	July 14, 2009(2009-07-14) (aged 83) Toronto, Ontario
Resting place	Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Poet, novelist
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Notable awards	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) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

Biography

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

In 1961, John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press published Gotlieb's first collection of poems, the pamphlet Who Knows One Her first novel, the science-fiction tale Sunburst, was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons. The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel.

Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliography

Science fiction novels

• Sunburst. New York: Fawcett, 1964.
• Birthstones. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007.

Dahlgren

• O Master Caliban! New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
• Heart of Red Iron. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Starcats

• A Judgment of Dragons. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980.
• Emperor, Swords, Pentacles. New York: Ace, 1982.
• The Kingdom of the Cats. New York: Ace, 1985.

Flesh and Gold

• Flesh and Gold. New York: Tor, 1998.
• Violent Stars. New York: Tor, 1999.
• Mindworld. New York: Tor, 2002.

Science fiction collections

• Son of the Morning and Other Stories. New York: Ace, 1983.
• Blue Apes. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.

Science fiction anthology

• Tesseracts 2 with Douglas Barbour (1987)

Novel

• Why Should I Have All the Grief? Toronto: Macmillan, 1969.

Poetry collections

• Who Knows One? Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961.
• 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.

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))
• Archives of Phyllis Gotlieb (Phyllis Fay Gotlieb fonds, R4738) are held at Library and Archives Canada