Curated category
Nebula Award winners
- Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
- George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
- Christopher NolanChristopher Edward Nolan was born on the 30th of July 1970 in Westminster, London. His father Brendan James Nolan worked as a creative director for an…
- Hayao MiyazakiOn the 5th of January 1941, Hayao Miyazaki was born in the town of Akebono-cho within Tokyo City. His father Katsuji Miyazaki directed a company that…
- Peter JacksonPeter Jackson was born on the 31st of October 1961 in Wellington, New Zealand. He grew up in a suburb called Pukerua Bay with parents who had immigrated from…
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
- James CameronJames Francis Cameron was born on the 16th of August 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario. He grew up as the eldest of five children with two brothers and two…
- Guillermo del ToroGuillermo del Toro Gómez was born on the 9th of October 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. His father Federico won a lottery worth $6 million in 1969.
- Philippa BoyensPhilippa Jane Boyens was born in 1963 to John Fraser Boyens and Jane Moana Menhennet. She attended Massey High School before becoming a part-time student at…
- Arthur C. ClarkeArthur Charles Clarke was born on the 16th of December 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. He grew up nearby at Bishops Lydeard where he lived on a farm.
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
- George Miller (filmmaker)George Miller was born on the 3rd of March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales alongside his twin…
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Joss WhedonJoseph Hill Whedon was born on the 23rd of June 1964 in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side as part of a family deeply embedded in television…
- Michael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock arrived in Mitcham, Surrey on the 18th of December 1939. The landscape of London would later shape his fiction, particularly areas like…
- Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on the 13th of May 1937. He grew up as the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother.
- David BrinGlen David Brin was born on the 6th of October 1950 in Glendale, California. His parents were Selma and Herb Brin, who raised him as a Jewish child.
- Jack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance arrived in the world on the 28th of August 1916. His family lived in a large house on Filbert Street in San Francisco during his early…
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.