Author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticated writer of science fiction, has died at age of 93.
His wife Elizabeth Hull said that Pohl died on Monday at a hospital after experiencing respiratory problems at his home in the Chicago suburb of Palatine. News of his death was first announced by his granddaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary, in a tweet.
Pohl wrote more than 40 novels. Two of his better-known works were “The Space Merchants,” written in the early 1950s with Cyril M. Kornbluth, and 1978’s Gateway, a winner of the Hugo Award for science fiction writing.
Pohl was a literary agent and editor before getting his own work published in science fiction magazines of the 1930s.