Robert Silverberg Biography

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Robert Silverberg Biography

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Robert Silverberg was born on January 15, 1935,in New York City to Helen (nee Baim) and Michael Silverberg, an accountant. He began writing for publication while still in his teens. After graduating with a B.A. from Columbia University in 1956, he married an engineer, Barbara H. Brown, and plunged into a full-time writing career. He proved to be an incredibly prolific writer whose work included short stories, novels, and nonfiction 4436 As Is books, produced at a rate sometimes exceeding two million words per year.

During the early years of his career he was regarded as a competent but not necessarily good writer.

In the mid-1960s he began serious research for details that soon became significant elements in his speculative fiction. By the early 1970s some critics regarded Silverberg as a writer who created good literature. Although there have been significant pauses in Silverberg's production...

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