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Spider Robinson
Spider was born in New York City in 1948. Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by two years in a Catholic college, and and holds a Bachelors degree in English from the State University of New York. While at Stony Brook, Spider Robinson earned a reputation as a great entertainer at campus coffeehouses and gatherings, strumming his guitar and singing in harmony with his female partner. In his 20s, he "spent several years in the woods, deliberately trying to live without technology." In 1975 he married his wife Jeanne, a dancer and Soto Zen monk; they have a daughter Terri, who once worked for Martha Stewart. He has lived in Canada for the past 30 years, primarily in the provinces of Nova Scotia and British Columbia. He formerly lived in "an upscale district of Vancouver for a decade," and has lived on Bowen Island since approximately 1999. He became a Canadian citizen in 2002, retaining his American citizenship. He was regular book reviewer for Galaxy, Analog and New Destinies magazines for nearly a decade, and contributes occasional book reviews to The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, for which he wrote a regular Op-Ed column from 1996-2004. In 2006 Spider Robinson became the only writer ever to collaborate on a novel with First Grandmaster of Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein, posthumously completing VARIABLE STAR. That same year the Library of Congress invited him to Washington D.C. to be a guest of the First Lady at the White House for the National Book Festival. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Literary Award. Selected Bibliography
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Spider
Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and
Nebula award winning science fiction author. 