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Clifford D. Simak
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Clifford D. Simak

1904 – 1988 · aged 84

American writer, journalist (1904–1988)

Born
3 Aug 1904 · Millville
Died
25 Apr 1988 · Minneapolis

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 3 Aug 1904BornBorn in Millville
  2. 1953AwardInternational Fantasy Award for Best Fiction
  3. 1959AwardHugo Award for Best Novelette
  4. 1964AwardHugo Award for Best Novel
  5. 1973AwardFirst Fandom Hall of Fame award
  6. 1977AwardDamon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
  7. 1978AwardJupiter Award
  8. 1981AwardHugo Award for Best Short Story
  9. 1981AwardLocus Award for Best Short Story
  10. 1981AwardNebula Award for Best Short Story
  11. 1987AwardBram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
  12. 25 Apr 1988DiedDied in Minneapolis

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1904 – 1988).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer and journalist. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. Much of his work is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.

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