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Dirk Wylie
1920–1949
A lively figure in early science fiction fandom, he wrote pulp-era stories and helped shape the field from behind the scenes as a literary agent. Best known by his pen name Dirk Wylie, he was part of the Futurians circle that included several later giants of the genre.
1 Audiobook
Asteroid of the Damned
by Dirk Wylie, Frederik Pohl
About the author
Born Joseph Harold Dockweiler, he published under the name Dirk Wylie and became known as an American science fiction writer and literary agent. Reliable reference sources agree that he was connected with the New York Futurians, an influential fan and writer group in the 1940s.
He is especially associated with Frederik Pohl: reference works note that the two were school friends, collaborated on fiction, and were linked to the Dirk Wylie Literary Agency after World War II. His career was brief, but his name still appears in histories of pulp science fiction because of those stories, collaborations, and his role in the genre's early professional network.
Sources differ on some biographical details, including whether he died in 1948 or 1949, so it is safest to say that he was active in the 1940s and died young.