![]() ![]() ![]() Rhine on extrasensory perception, and that may have influenced Campbell's laterviews on the subject.\" Damon Knight writes that Campbell was a \"portly, bristled-haired blondman with a challenging stare\" who told him once that \"he wasn't sure how much longer hewould edit Astounding. Asimov notes Campbell'spresence at Duke and speculates that Duke was \"best known in my youth for the work ofJoseph B. He then spent one year at Duke University, fromwhich he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1932. By the time hewas 21 he was a well-known pulp writer of super-science space opera but had beendismissed by MIT: he had failed German. Campbell attended the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), where he befriended Norbert Wiener, one of the godfathers of computers.He began writing science fiction at age 18 and quickly sold his first stories. John was unable to tell them apart and was frequently coldly rebuffed bythe person he took to be his mother. His mother, Dorothy (née Strahern) waswarm but changeable of character and had an identical twin who visited them often and whodisliked young John. ![]() His father was a cold,impersonal, and unaffectionate electrical engineer. Campbell About the Author (from Wikipedia) John Campbell was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1910. Campbell Table of ContentsAbout the Author. ![]()
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