Editing Donald A. Wollheim (section)

==Recognition==
[[Algis Budrys]] in 1966 gave Wollheim a Galaxy Bookshelf award "for doing his job".<ref name="budrys196602">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Budrys
 |first=Algis
 |date=February 1966
 |title=Galaxy Bookshelf
 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v24n03_1966-02#page/n131/mode/2up
 |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction
 |pages=131–139
}}</ref> Upon Wollheim's death in 1990, the prolific editor Robert Silverberg argued ([[#Editor and publisher|above]]) that he may have been "''the'' most significant figure" in American SF publishing.<ref name=Locus90/>

[[Robert Jordan]] credited Wollheim for helping to launch Jordan's career. Wollheim made an offer for Jordan's first novel, ''Warriors of the Ataii'', though he withdrew the offer when Jordan requested some minor changes to the contract. Jordan claimed that Wollheim's first, 'laudatory' letter convinced him that he could write, and so he chose to remember the first letter and forget about the second.<ref>McAlpine, Rachel. {{cite web |url=http://writing.co.nz/writing/fantasy.htm |title=New Zealand interview with Robert Jordan |access-date=September 26, 2011 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020624153852/http://writing.co.nz/writing/fantasy.htm |archive-date=June 24, 2002  }}.</ref><ref>Kleffel, Rick. [http://www.theoryland.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=6032 Fine Print interview with Robert Jordan].</ref> The novel was never published, but Jordan went on to write the immensely successful ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series for a different publisher.

Marion Zimmer Bradley referred to him as "a second father", Frederick Pohl called him "a founder",<ref name="Locus90"/> and Robert Silverberg says he was "seriously underrated" and "one of the great shapers of science-fiction publishing in the United States".<ref name="silver"/> In 1977 scholar [[Robert Scholes]] named Wollheim "one of the most important editors and publishers of science fiction."<ref name="scholes-rabkin">{{cite book | first1=Robert | last1=Scholes| author-link1= Robert Scholes| first2 = Eric S.| last2 = Rabkin|title=Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision| url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionhi00scho | url-access=registration | publisher=Oxford University Press| location=London|date=1977|chapter=Bibliography I: History and Criticism of Science Fiction| isbn=978-0-19-502174-5}}</ref>

From 1975 on, Wollheim received several special awards for his contributions to science fiction and to fantasy,<ref name=SFAwards/> including one at the 1975 World SF Convention and runner-up to Ian & Betty Ballantine at the 1975 World Fantasy Convention.

The [[EMP Museum#Science Fiction Hall of Fame|Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame]] inducted him in 2002, its seventh class of two deceased and two living persons.<ref name=sfhof-old/> He is the third person inducted primarily for his work as editor or publisher, after the inaugural 1996 pair [[Hugo Gernsback]] and [[John W. Campbell]].