Editing Terry Bisson (section)

==Biography==
Terry Ballantine Bisson was born on February 12, 1942,<ref name="Locus2024" /> in [[Madisonville, Kentucky]], and raised in [[Owensboro, Kentucky]].<ref name=bisson>{{cite web |last=Bisson |first=Terry |title=TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE: Life & Works |date=11 April 2019 |url=http://www.terrybisson.com/life-works/ |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="pk">Paul Kincaid, "Bisson, Terry (Ballentine)", in [[David Pringle]], ''St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers''. New York, St. James Press. {{ISBN|1558622055}} (p. 61-2)</ref>

While a student at [[Grinnell College]] ([[Iowa]]) in 1961, Bisson was one of a group of students who traveled to [[Washington, D.C.]], during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] supporting [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]'s "peace race". Kennedy invited the group to the [[White House]] (the first time protesters had ever been so recognized) and they met for several hours with [[McGeorge Bundy]]. The group received wide press coverage, and this event is regarded as the start of the student peace movement. Over time, they came to be known as the [[Grinnell 14]].<ref name="grinnell">[https://www.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/docs/2019-09/GrinMagFall2011%20%281%29.pdf Grinnell Magazine, Fall 2011: The Grinnell 14 Go to Washington] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204215526/https://www.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/docs/2019-09/GrinMagFall2011%20(1).pdf|date=2020-02-04}}</ref>

After leaving Grinnell College, Bisson graduated from the [[University of Louisville]] in 1964. He lived "on and off" in New York City for most of the next four decades, before moving to [[Oakland, California]], in 2002. He became a "working" writer in 1981. A self-identified member of the [[New Left]], he operated Jacobin Books, a "revolutionary" mail-order book service, from 1985 to 1990, in partnership with Judy Jensen.<ref name=bisson /> Bisson was also a member of the [[May 19th Communist Organization]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reverby |first=Susan |title=Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman |year=2020 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |pages=117}}</ref>

Bisson was married three times. He and his first wife, Deirdre Holst, had three children. His second marriage was to Mary Corey. Bisson married his "longtime companion" Judy Jensen on December 24, 2004; the couple had one daughter, and Bisson was stepfather to Jensen's two children.<ref name=bisson /><ref>"People and Publishing," [[Locus (magazine)|''Locus'']], April 2005, p.8</ref>

In the 1960s, early in his career, Bisson collaborated on several comic book stories with Clark Dimond, and he edited [[Major Publications]]' black-and-white [[horror fiction|horror]]-comics [[magazine]] ''Web of Horror'', but left before the fourth issue.

Bisson's first novel was ''Wyrldmaker'', a science fiction novel influenced by [[James Blish|James Blish's]] ''The Seedling Stars''.<ref name="pk" /> His next novel was ''Talking Man'' (1986), a fantasy about the titular wizard living in the contemporary American South.<ref name="pk" />

In 1996, he wrote two three-part [[comic book]] adaptations of ''[[Nine Princes in Amber]]'' and ''[[The Guns of Avalon]]'', the first two books in [[Roger Zelazny|Roger Zelazny's]] [[The Chronicles of Amber|Amber]] series.

In 1997, after [[Walter M. Miller, Jr.|Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s]] death in 1996, Bisson completed Miller's unfinished ''[[Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman]]'', the sequel to Miller's classic 1960 novel ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bisson |first=Terry |year=1997 |title=A CANTICLE FOR MILLER; or, How I Met Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman but not Walter M. Miller, Jr. |url=http://www.terrybisson.com/page4/page4.html |access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref>

Bisson died in the early morning on January 10, 2024, at the age of 81.<ref name="Locus2024">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-01-10 |title=Terry Bisson (1942-2024) |url=https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/ |work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |location= |access-date=2024-01-06 }}</ref>