- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAlgirdas Jonas Budrys
- Nickname
- A.J.
- While born in eastern Europe, he has lived in the US since 1936. He initially worked for his father, who was US representative of the Lithuanian government-in-exile. He began publishing science fiction in 1952 in the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction" (now "Analog").
- IMDb mini biography by: <dferstat@iinet.net.au>
- SpouseEdna F. Duna(1954 - June 9, 2008) (his death, 4 children)
- His classic science fiction novel Rogue Moon (1960), a conceptual-breakthrough novel about an alien labyrinth on the Moon, was nominated for the 1961 Hugo Award, but lost to A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..
- Budrys was his father's nom de guerre, and roughly means "Sentry," hence Budrys's use of the pseudonym John A. Sentry.
- Survivors include his wife Edna, four sons, David, Jeffrey, Steven and Timothy; and two grandchildren.
- Published short fiction in magazines under the pseudonym "Alger Rome" while collaborating with Jerome Bixby.
- During the 55th World Science Fiction Convention in 1997, held in San Antonio, Texas, Budrys and his wife Edna joined Tim Powers, Serena Powers, and Fiona Kelleghan in visiting the Alamo. Himself a refugee (a Lithuanian born in Königsberg, Germany, who as an infant moved with his family to the USA), Budrys expressed himself to be emotionally moved by the visit.
- I have seen Adolf Hitler, Henry Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur . . . I have shaken Harry Truman's hand. I have seen the Graf Zeppelin . . . I have seen the swastika-chalked brick-halves that came through our windows at night, and I was playing in a sandbox in Manhattan the afternoon the Hindenburg cruised overhead on her way to a thunderstorm and her grave. I have been called a Nazi, a Communist, a clod, a petit bourgeois and a long-haired egg-head. I am, in short, a child of the twentieth century.
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