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De Camp was born in New York City and began his education there at Trinity School. After ten years at the Snyder School in North Carolina, he attended the California Institute of Technology, earning a B.S. in aeronautical engineering in 1930. He subsequently took an M.S. in engineering and economics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1933. Although he has worked as an educator, lecturer, engineer, patent expert, publicity writer, and officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve (in World War II), for most of the last forty years he has pursued the career of a free-lance writer. He and his wife, Catherine H. Crook, make their home today in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
De Camp is the author or coauthor of approximately ninety books, including popularizations of science and technology (The Ancient Engineers, 1963, and The Day of the Dinosaur, 1968), history (Great Cities of the Ancient World, 1972), biography (Lovecraft, 1975, and The Miscast Barbarian: A Biography of Robert E. Howard, 1975), textbooks (Inventions and Their Management, with Alf K. Berle, 1937, and Science-Fiction Handbook, 1953), historical novels (The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate, 1961, and The Golden Wind, 1969), fantasy (The Incomplete Enchanter .
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