Editing Kyril Bonfiglioli (section)

==Biography==
Bonfiglioli was born in [[Eastbourne]] on the south coast of England to an Italo-Slovene father, Emmanuel Bonfiglioli, and an English mother, Dorothy née Pallett. His mother and brother died in an air raid when he was 14. Having served in the British Army from 1947 to 1954, and being widowed, he applied to [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he took his degree. After his divorce from his second wife, he lived in [[Silverdale, Lancashire|Silverdale]] in [[Lancashire]], then in [[Jersey]] and Ireland. With Keith Roberts, he edited ''[[Science Fantasy (magazine)|Science Fantasy]]'' magazine for a period from 1964 to 1966, appointed by David Warburton of Roberts and Vinter Ltd.; and the successor ''Impulse'' for its first few issues in 1966 before handing the reins to [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]]. He died in Jersey of [[cirrhosis]] in 1985, having had five children.<ref name=Carey>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/20/040920crat_atlarge |title=The Genuine Article: the strange case of Kyril Bonfiglioli|magazine=The New Yorker |date=20 September 2004|last=Carey|first=Leo| access-date=25 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="Times">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140709142135/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1426514.ece "Don’t Point That Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli"]. ''The Sunday Times''. Retrieved 17 October 2014.</ref>

He described himself as "an accomplished fencer, a fair shot with most weapons and a serial marrier of beautiful women ... abstemious in all things except drink, food, tobacco and talking ... and loved and respected by all who knew him slightly."<ref name=Carey/><ref>Bonfiglioli, Kyril. "After you with the Pistol", Penguin Books, 2014 edition, p. i (first page, publishers preface).</ref>