Poul Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania on November 25, 1926, to Anton and Astrid Anderson. He married Karen Kruse on December 12, Escape the Morning 4591 1953. His first story was published in 1947 while he was still in college. After graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, he devoted himself to writing. Anderson was publishing several stories a year by the early 1950s, and his first book Vault of the Ages, a novel for young people, appeared in 1952. Anderson was a wellestablished author by the end of the decade whose works included mysteries, historical novels, and nonfiction articles, as well as science fiction. He was clearly one of America's most popular science fiction authors, with a following comparable to those of Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and A. E. Van Vogt. He has remained an industrious writer since then, publishing dozens of articles...