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==Biography== Davidson was born in 1923 in [[Yonkers, New York]], to [[Jewish]] parents.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.forward.com/articles/10772/|title= Writing in Four Dimensions: Reconsidering Science-Fiction Writer Avram Davidson|author= Cohen, Joshua|date= May 25, 2007|work= The Jewish Daily Forward|access-date=June 1, 2010}}</ref> He served as a Navy [[hospital corpsman]] (medic) with the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] in the [[Pacific War|Pacific]] during [[World War II]], and began his writing career as a [[Talmud]]ic scholar around 1950. As reported at the time in the February 20, 1962, Yonkers daily, the ''[[Herald Statesman]]'', Rabbi Arnold Weinberger officiated at his wedding to Miss Grania Kaiman, which took place at the home of [[Damon Knight]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Avram Davidson, Magazine Editor, Marries Hunter College Student|url=http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2010/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman%201962%20Grayscale/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman%201962%20%20Grayscale%20-%201184.pdf|access-date=April 2, 2018|work=newspaper|agency=Herald Statesman|date=February 20, 1962|location=Yonkers, NY|pages=11}}</ref> This made his conversion to [[Tenrikyo]] in the 1970s unexpected. Although he had a reputation for being quick to anger, Davidson was known among his friends for his generosity. His peripatetic life and career may have been due to a disinclination to finish what he began. His reputation among science fiction and fantasy readers peaked in the 1960s, after which he had a coterie of fans who (as with [[R. A. Lafferty]]) kept his reputation alive, especially after his death. He was a member of the [[Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America]] (SAGA), a loose-knit group of [[Heroic fantasy|Heroic Fantasy]] authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in [[Lin Carter|Lin Carter's]] ''[[Flashing Swords!]]'' anthologies. While editing ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' he lived in [[Mexico]], and later in [[British Honduras]] (now renamed [[Belize]]). He lived in a rural district of [[Novato, California|Novato]], in northern [[Marin County, California]], in 1970, but later moved closer to San Francisco. He lived in a small house in [[Sausalito, California|Sausalito]], at the southern end of Marin County next to San Francisco in 1971 and 1972, and it was there fans and friends were welcomed. He worked for a short time in the late 1970s as a creative writing instructor at the [[University of Texas at El Paso]]. In his later years, he lived in [[Washington (state)|Washington state]], including a brief stay in the Veterans' Home in [[Bremerton, Washington|Bremerton]]. He died in his tiny apartment in Bremerton on May 8, 1993, aged 70. A memorial service was held in Gasworks Park in Seattle. He was survived by his son Ethan and his ex-wife [[Grania Davis]], who continued to edit and release his unpublished works until her own death.
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