A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadianborn science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the midtwentieth century the Golden Age of the genre.
Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home. Van Vogts father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life
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