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Through all of her heartbreaks and triumphs she kept moving because she had once said herself that she was meant to be raised like a man, smart not pretty, and always sure of herself. She was never alone as a child because her mother ran a homeless shelter for kids and never as an adult because she lived a fast paced life. After science fiction became a closed chapter in her life she moved to Toronto, Canada to work at a college called Rochdale. She departed this life on September 12, 1997 from heart failure. Her grandaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary, is cuirrently writng stories. A good friend of Judith said that after she stopped writing, thats when science fiction became dead and that she was one of the strongest people he new.**
 * [[image:Judith.jpg]] Known as The Little Mother Of Science Fiction Ms. Judith Merril knew what she was doing and did it well! She made dozens of short stories, was a prolific author, and won a Hugo award for her autobiography. As an author in the Golden Age of science fiction she was very well known and respected. She is also called a 20th century pioneer for science fiction. This page is dedicated to her because she was one of the few female science fiction authors to go very far during the Golden Age. She was a brave woman because she started writing about scientific, social, and political activity almost right after The Depression. She also helped make a British wave in science fiction and got them more interested in it.**
 * Writing was in Judith Merril's blood. She was born on January 21, 1923, in Boston, while her father supported them by writing. He was an author also but when Judith was only 6 years old he comitted suicide during The Depression. She then moved in with her mother in New York City. After graduating high school she soon fell in love with science fiction and a man named Dan Zissman (who becomes he first husband) at a 4th of July picnic. Soon, after he is drafted she has her first child which she names Merril. Later on, she ends up a single mother and starts writing short stories for sports-related magazines. After getting familiar with writing she wrote her own short story called __That Only a Mother.__ Her writing style was very different. Her sentences were more clearer and yet just as descriptive as any other authors. She also wrote about computers and other technological things from the future in her stories. They became very popular and she soon became famous for dozens of other short stories. During her writing career which lasted from the 1940s, 1950s, and the 1960s she made three novels and got married to Fred Pohl. Her first novel was called __Shadow on the Hearth__, her second __Mars Child,__ and her last was called __The Tomorrow People__. Unfortunatly, while all of this was happening she had gotten a divorce, but not before her second daughter, Ann, was brought into this world. She married again to man named Dan Sugrue but divorced him a while later, but the divorce was never finalized.