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- Birth nameHenry Maxwell Dempsey
- Harry Harrison was born on March 12, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for Soylent Green (1973), Soylent Green and Bill the Galactic Hero (2014). He was married to Joan Merkler. He died on August 15, 2012 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- SpouseJoan Merkler(June 1954 - April 21, 2002) (her death, 2 children)
- Science Fiction author. Noted for such series as Deathworld, The Stainless Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic Hero
- He has used house names such as Wade Kaempfert and Philip St. John to edit magazines, and has published other fictions under the names Felix Boyd, Leslie Charteris, and Hank Dempsey.
- Harrison was selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as the 2009 recipient of their Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
- Harrison lived in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Ireland, Denmark and Italy.
- He was an advocate of the international language Esperanto, which he learned while in the Army during WWII. It appears in several of his books.
- [on filming of Soylent Green (1973), based on his novel] I went down to the set and took a lot of copies of the book with me and gave one to everyone I could think of--the actors, the cameraman, the technicians--all of whom seemed to appreciate meeting me. I mean, they don't care about screenwriters, but authors of real books are something different. They don't get to see many real books in Hollywood, only rotten screenplays.
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