James E. Gunn

James E. Gunn was an American science fiction writer.

Gunn served in the Navy for three years during World War II and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's in English from the University of Kansas, where he taught his first class in 1955.

Gunn is best known for his 1962 novel, The Immortals, about a group of people who discover the secret to eternal life. It was made into a television movie in 1969, and a short-lived television series which aired in the 1970-71 season.

Gunn served as editor 10 anthologies of science fiction, including the six-volume Road to Science Fiction series, and authored 30 books, his last being 2017's Transformation. He is also credited with about 100 short stories.

Gunn was was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015, and honored as a grand master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2007, and given a Hugo Award for his 1982 work Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction.

Gunn died December 23, 2020, in Lawrence, Kansas. He was 97.