Damon Knight
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His final novel, "Humpty Dumpty: An Oval," was published in 1996.
Knight published his first story in 1941 and went on to write 13 novels, beginning with "Hell's Pavement" in 1955, plus more than 100 short stories.
Short story "To Serve Man" was adapted into a well-known episode of "The Twilight Zone." In it, aliens appear on Earth and promise to end hunger and war, but their guidebook, "To Serve Man," is decoded and found to be a cookbook.
Although well known as a writer, Knight also was influential as a teacher, critic and organizer. He helped found the Science Fiction Writers of America and was editor of Orbit, a sci-fi anthology series.
Knight and his wife, Kate Wilhelm, also a writer of science fiction, taught for 27 years at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, held annually at Michigan State U. in East Lansing. They also ran a monthly workshop in their Eugene home where a local circle of professional writers could share their work and expect blunt criticism.
Knight won the Hugo Award in 1956 for reviewing and a Grand Master Nebula Award in 1994.
Besides his wife, Knight is survived by two daughters, two sons, two stepsons and seven grandchildren.
