Robert Silverberg

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, Robert Silverberg began writing stories as a boy and was publishing professionally while still a student at Columbia University. He went on to become one of the most productive and versatile figures in speculative fiction, writing novels, short stories, essays, and popular nonfiction over the course of a long career.

Silverberg became especially prominent in science fiction's New Wave era, when his fiction grew more ambitious in style and theme. Books such as Thorns, Dying Inside, and the Majipoor series helped establish his reputation for combining imaginative worldbuilding with sharp attention to character, memory, power, and identity.

Over the years he has received major honors including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, and he has also been widely respected as an editor and anthologist. For many readers, he stands out as an author who could be both intellectually adventurous and deeply readable, always ready to explore what it means to be human in strange futures.