Editing Norman Spinrad (section)

== Personal life==
Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the [[Bronx High School of Science]]. In 1957 he entered [[City College of New York]] and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a [[pre-law]] major.<ref>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 233. Detroit: Gale, 2005. pp. 358–408 at 366</ref> He has lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and New York City. He married fellow novelist [[N. Lee Wood]] in 1990; they divorced in 2005. Spinrad served as President of the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] (SFWA) from 1980 to 1982 and again from 2001 to 2002. He has also worked as a phone-in radio show host, a vocal artist, a literary agent, and President of [[World SF]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-political-naif-an-interview-with-norman-spinrad/#! |title=No Political Naïf: An Interview with Norman Spinrad |last=Winter, Jerome |website=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |access-date=August 7, 2012 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805001558/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-political-naif-an-interview-with-norman-spinrad/#! |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In an interview with ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'' magazine in 1999, Spinrad described himself as an "anarchist" and a "[[syndicalist]]".<ref>''Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction'' by [[Margaret Killjoy]]. AK Press, 2009 (p. 205)</ref>