Kate Wilhelm

(June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018)

An American pro writer living in in Eugene, Oregon whose second husband was fellow sf writer Damon Knight. She and Knight helped to establish the Clarion Writers Workshop and the Milford Writer's Workshop (where they lived at the time).

InfinityBox Press has been created to present the new and legacy works of Wilhelm and Knight in hardcover and ebook formats.

A remembrance of Wilhelm by Jon D. Swartz appeared in the 1st Quarter 2018 issue (New Series #55) of Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report.

She was Worldcon GoH at Noreascon Two and you can hear her GoH speech here

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1970 -- Balticon 4
• 1977 -- Westercon 30, Best Novel Hugo for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
• 1978 -- ConFusion Pi, BYOB-Con 8
• 1979 -- Intervention 1
• 1980 -- Noreascon Two
• 1981 -- Moscon III, Hillcon 1 (Beneluxcon 8)
• 1983 -- Constellation Con, ConQuesT 4+10
• 1985 -- Boskone 22
• 1986 -- Minicon 21
• 1990 -- Westercon 43
• 1994 -- 1994 World Fantasy Convention
• 1995 -- Fourth Street Fantasy Convention 1995
• 1996 -- Raymond Z. Gallun Award
• 2003 -- Science Fiction Hall of Fame
• 2005 -- Readercon 16
• 2006 -- WisCon 30, Best Related Book Hugo for Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
• 2009 -- Solstice Award
• 4 other Hugo nominations

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