Thomas M. Disch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Novelist, short story writer, poet
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1940
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 04-Jul-2008
Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, journalist, children's writer, novelist, science fiction writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Thomas M. Disch
- Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet.
- He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W.
- Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines.
- His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration and 334 are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement.
- In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse.
- Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals.
- He published several volumes of poetry as Tom Disch. Following an extended period of depression following the death in 2005 of his life-partner, Charles Naylor, Disch stopped writing almost entirely, except for poetry and blog entries – although he did produce two novellas.
- Disch killed himself by gunshot on July 4, 2008 in his apartment in Manhattan, New York City.
- Naylor and Disch are buried alongside each other at Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa.
- His last book, The Word of God, which was written shortly before Naylor died, had just been published a few days before Disch's death.
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