Editing Theodore Sturgeon (section)

===Youth and education===
Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in [[Staten Island, New York]], in 1918. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon at age eleven after his mother's divorce and subsequent marriage to William Dicky ("Argyll") Sturgeon.<ref>Williams, Paul (1976). [http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/sturgeon/williams.html "Theodore Sturgeon, Storyteller"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030913021248/http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/sturgeon/williams.html |date=2003-09-13 }}. First published 1997, online. Retrieved 2013-03-26.<br /> Quote: "Sturgeon because that was the stepfather's name—he was a professor of modern languages at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia—and Theodore because Edward was the boy's father's name and the mother was still bitter and anyway young Edward had always been known as Teddy."<br /> Quote: "To this day, libraries all over the world list 'Theodore Sturgeon' as a pseudonym for 'E. H. Waldo', which is incorrect."</ref>
Theodore's birth father, Edward Waldo, was a color and dye manufacturer of middling success.  With his second wife, Anne, he had one daughter, Joan. Theodore's mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker (Waldo) Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry, and fiction under the name Felix Sturgeon. His stepfather, William Dickie Sturgeon (sometimes known as Argyll), was a mathematics teacher at a prep school and then Romance Languages Professor at Drexel Institute (later [[Drexel Institute of Technology]]) in Philadelphia. Sturgeon's account of his stepfather is included in a posthumous memoir.<ref name="Argyll">Sturgeon, Theodore (1993). ''Argyll; A Memoir'', Entwhistle Books. {{ISBN|978-0934558167}}</ref> Sturgeon's sibling, [[Peter A. Sturgeon|Peter Sturgeon]], wrote technical material for the pharmaceutical industry and the [[World Health Organization|WHO]], and founded the American branch of [[Mensa International|Mensa]].

Upon graduating from high school in 1935, Sturgeon pleaded to be allowed to attend college, but his step-father refused to support him, citing his frivolity.{{sfnp|Moskowitz|1974|p=234}}