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Boucher was born William Anthony Parker White in Oakland , California , and went to college at the University Of Southern California . He later received a Masters degree from the University Of California At Berkeley . He was admired for his mystery writing but was most noted for his editing, his science fiction anthologies, and his mystery reviews for many years in '' The New York Times ''. He was the first English translator of Jorge Luis Borges , translating "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" for '' Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ''. He helped found the Mystery Writers Of America in 1946. He was also editor of the '' Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction '' for several years after its inception and was seminal in attempting to make literary quality an important aspect of science fiction. Anthony Boucher died of lung cancer on April 29, 1968 at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland.

The annual Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention was named in his honour.


SELECTED WORKS


Mystery novels



Collections

  • ''Far and Away; Eleven Fantasy and SF Stories'' ( 1955 ) (fantasy and science fiction)

  • ''The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and SF'' ( 1969 ) (fantasy and science fiction)

  • '' Exeunt Murderers '' ( 1983 ) (mysteries)

  • '' The Compleat Boucher '' ( 1999 ) (fantasy and science fiction)



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