Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson was a reputed author from America, who was well known for writing literature & fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and short stories. He was often referred to as Science Fiction’s Dean after Robert Heinlein’s death in 1988. Author Williamson used to make use of several pen names for writing different genres of novels during the early days of his career. Some of the popular pen names used by him include Nils O. Sonderland and Will Stewart. Author Williamson was born on April 20, 1908, in Bisbee, Arizona, United States. He spent the early days of his childhood in Texas. Williamson’s family was a farming family and therefor, they migrated to the rural regions of New Mexico in order to look for better pastures. They reached New Mexico in 1915 in a horse drawn wagon. However, as it was not an easy task to carry out farming there, Williamson’s family got engaged in ranching. And when they saw that the new profession was suiting them, they continued to do it and still engaged in the same. At the time of the World War II, author Williamson was serving in the Air Corps of the United States and was posted as a weather forecaster. Author Williamson completed his graduation from the University of Eastern New Mexico in Portales during the 1950s. He obtained his BA and MA degrees in the subject of English. Later, he began teaching at the same university in the 1960s. Author Williamson remained associated with the university for the remainder of his life. In late 1990s, laid the foundation of a permanent trust for funding the art and literature journal of ENMU, called El Portal. Even in 1980s, he made sizable donations of original manuscripts and books to the library of this university. This resulted in a department of Special Collections.