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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
Fiction
Reality
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Writing
Life
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