Editing Frederik Pohl (section)

==Early life and family==
Pohl was the son of Frederik (originally Friedrich) George Pohl (a salesman of German descent) and Anna Jane Mason.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&q=Anna+Frederik+George+Pohl&pg=PA1035 |title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature - R. Reginald |date=September 2010 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |isbn=9780941028776 |last1=Reginald |first1=R.|publisher=Wildside Press LLC }}</ref> Pohl Sr. held various jobs, and the Pohls lived in such far-flung locations as [[Texas]], [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and the [[Panama Canal Zone]]. The family settled in [[Brooklyn]] when Pohl was around seven.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/10/let-there-be-fandom-brooklyn-boyhood/ |title=Let There Be Fandom, Part 3: A Brooklyn Boyhood |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=October 2, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903040227/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/10/let-there-be-fandom-brooklyn-boyhood/ |archive-date=September 3, 2012}}</ref>

He attended [[Brooklyn Technical High School]], and dropped out at 17.<ref name="popsci">{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/07/my-life-as-book-editor-for-popular-science |title=The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl - Blog Archive - My Life as Book Editor for Popular Science |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=July 28, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723233946/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/07/my-life-as-book-editor-for-popular-science/ |archive-date=July 23, 2012}}</ref> In 2009, he was awarded an honorary diploma from Brooklyn Tech.<ref>{{cite news |first=Susan |last=Dominus |title=Big City - At 89, Frederik Pohl, Sci-Fi Author, Gets Brooklyn Tech Diploma |date=August 24, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/nyregion/22bigcity.html |work=New York Times |access-date=August 24, 2009}}</ref>

While a teenager, he co-founded the New York–based [[Futurians]] [[science fiction fandom|fan group]], and began lifelong friendships with [[Donald Wollheim]], [[Isaac Asimov]], and others who would become important writers and editors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/05/the-quadrumvirate |title=The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl - Blog Archive - The Quadrumvirate |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=May 8, 2009 |access-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/01/isaac/ |title=Isaac |publisher=The Way the Future Blogs |date=January 25, 2010 |access-date=March 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728090550/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/01/isaac/ |archive-date=July 28, 2010}}</ref> Pohl later said that other "friends came and went and were gone, [but] many of the ones I met through fandom were friends all their lives – Isaac, [[Damon Knight]], [[Cyril Kornbluth]], [[Dirk Wylie]], [and] [[Richard Wilson (author)|Dick Wilson]]. In fact, there are one or two – [[Jack Robins]], [[David A. Kyle|Dave Kyle]] – whom I still count as friends, seventy-odd years later...." He published a science-fiction fanzine called ''Mind of Man.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/06/the-poetry-corner-2/ |title=Poetry Corner |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=June 11, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref>

In 1936, Pohl joined the [[Young Communist League]] because of its positions for [[labour unions|unions]] and against [[racial prejudice]], [[Adolf Hitler]], and [[Benito Mussolini]]. He became president of the local [[Flatbush, New York|Flatbush]] III Branch of the YCL in Brooklyn. Pohl has said that after the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] of 1939, the party line changed and he could no longer support it, at which point he left.<ref>''The Way the Future Was'', Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Books, 1978), pp. 93, 113.</ref>

During [[World War II]], Pohl served in the [[United States Army]] from April 1943 until November 1945, rising to [[sergeant]] as an elite [[United States Army Air Corps|Air Corps]] weatherman. After training in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado, he was mainly stationed in Italy with the [[456th Bombardment Group]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/03/hal-clement-major-harry-stubbs/ |title=Hal Clement: Major Harry Stubbs |website=The Way the Future Blogs |date=March 1, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723234730/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/03/hal-clement-major-harry-stubbs/ |archive-date=July 23, 2012}}</ref>

Pohl was married five times. His first wife, [[Leslie Perri]], was another Futurian; they were married in August 1940, and divorced in 1944. He then married Dorothy Les Tina in Paris in August 1945 while both were serving in the military in Europe; the marriage ended in 1947. During 1948, he married [[Judith Merril]]; they had a daughter, Ann. Pohl and Merril divorced in 1952. In 1953, he married Carol M. Ulf Stanton, with whom he had three children and collaborated on several books; they separated in 1977 and were divorced in 1983. From 1984 until his death, Pohl was married to science-fiction expert and academic [[Elizabeth Anne Hull]].

He fathered four children&nbsp;– Ann (m. Walter Weary), Frederik III (born and died in 1954, aged one month<ref>{{cite book |last=Page |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfCVCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22frederik+pohl+iii%22&pg=PA58 |title=Frederik Pohl |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2015 |pages=58 |isbn=9780252097744}}</ref>), Frederik IV (a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, and producer),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2533454/ Frederik Pohl IV], IMDB.com</ref> and Kathy.<ref>[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Document Number: H1000078817]</ref> Grandchildren include Canadian writer [[Emily Pohl-Weary]] and [[chef]] Tobias Pohl-Weary.<ref>[http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/eat-at-red-canoe-bistro/ Eat at Red Canoe Bistro], ''The Way the Future Blogs'', May 5, 2010: "The proprietor and head chef is the talented Tobias Pohl Weary, who has not only been winning awards for his cuisine but is also my grandson, of whom I am really proud."</ref>

From 1984 on, he lived in [[Palatine, Illinois]], a suburb of [[Chicago]]. He was previously a longtime resident of [[Middletown, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news |author=[ Displaying Abstract ] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/05/15/archives/a-correction.html |title=A Correction - Article - NYTimes.com |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 15, 1966 |access-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref>