Philip Wylie

Philip Gordon Wylie was a Massachusetts-based philosophy and science fiction author. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Philip was the son of Edmund Melville and Edna Edwards, a Presbyterian minister and novelist, respectively. His mother died when Philip was only five years old. Philips’s family relocated to Montclair, New Jersey, where he joined Princeton University in 1923, graduating in 1923. His first wife was Sally Ondek, with whom they had a daughter, Karen, who later became the inventor of animal clicker training. Philip divorced his first wife and then married Frederic Ballard.