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- Birth nameJames Benjamin Blish
- James Blish was born on May 23, 1921 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer, known for The Secret Files of Captain Video (1953), Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949) and Inglorious Treksperts (2018). He was married to Judith Ann Lawrence and Virginia Kidd. He died on July 30, 1975 in Henley-on-Thames, England, UK.
- SpousesJudith Ann Lawrence(1964 - July 30, 1975) (his death)Virginia Kidd(1947 - ?) (1 child)
- Blish wrote science fiction criticism under the pen name 'William Atheling, Jr.' While he was well known within the SF field, he's best known outside the field for novelizations of the original 'Star Trek' episodes.
- His parents were Asa Rhodes Blish, an advertising manager (1893-1948), and Dorothea Schneewind, a pianist (1894-1982).
- His children were Dorothea Elisabeth Blish (born 1954; later Genly) and Charles Benjamin Blish (born 1956).
- Hope springs eternal in the human spleen.
- No exercise of will can make any of us other than what we are, or more than marginally better than who we are.
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