Editing Theodore Sturgeon (section)

==Personal life==
;Wives and partners
Sturgeon was married three times, had two long-term committed relationships outside of marriage, divorced once, and fathered a total of seven children. His first wife was Dorothe Fillingame (married 1940, divorced 1945) with whom he had two daughters.{{cn|date=July 2024}} He was married to singer Mary Mair from 1949 until an annulment in 1951.{{cn|date=July 2024}} In 1953, he wed Marion McGahan with whom he had two sons and two daughters.<ref name="sturgeon196104">{{Cite magazine |last=Sturgeon |first=Theodore |date=April 1961 |title=Tandy's Story |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v19n04_1961-04#page/n85/mode/1up |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction |pages=170–194}}</ref> In 1969, he began living with Wina Golden, a journalist, with whom he had a son.{{sfnp|Sturgeon|1978|p=12}}

Finally, his last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Englehart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death. She joined Sturgeon at book signings for his collection ''Maturity'', and signed as "Jayne Sturgeon". Englehart had her own biological son prior to her partnership with Sturgeon, to whom Sturgeon became like a stepfather.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

;Relationship with Kurt Vonnegut
In 1965, [[Kurt Vonnegut]] devised the name of his fictional science-fiction writer [[Kilgore Trout]] as an obscure reference to Sturgeon's name.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Link | first1=Eric Carl | last2=Canavan | first2=Gerry | title=The Cambridge companion to American science fiction | publication-place=New York, NY | date=2015 | isbn=978-1-107-28060-1 | oclc=902771331 | doi = 10.1017/CCO9781107280601}}</ref> The two writers had become friends when Sturgeon moved to [[Truro, Massachusetts]] in 1957. Vonnegut described Trout as a notably unsuccessful writer, prolifically publishing hackwork only in pulp and pornographic magazines. Since the characterization was unflattering, it was not until after Sturgeon's death that Vonnegut explicitly acknowledged the connection; he stated in a 1987 interview that "Yeah, it said so in his obituary in ''[[The New York Times]]''. I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716210548/http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/trout Kilgore Trout webpage]</ref> In 2000, Vonnegut wrote an admiring introduction to Volume VII of ''The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon''.<ref> Sturgeon, Theodore (2000), ''A Saucer of Loneliness: Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon''; Paul Williams (Editor), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Foreword); North Atlantic Books.</ref>