Gilliland Alexis

American writer of sci-fi, the author of seven novels as well as three collections of cartoons. He has won four Fan Artist Hugos for "creating cartoons in their wild state" and the 1982 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Gilliland earned a BS and MS in Chemistry, and spent two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He retired from the Federal Supply Service in 1982 after spending 28 years with the company. He married Dolly in 1959 and they had two sons, Micha in 1963, and Charles in 1965; he was widowed in 1991. He remarried, to Elizabeth S. Uba, (Lee,) in 1993. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less