Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904 - 1968) was a noted science fiction anthologist, born Edward Groff Conklin in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Glen Ridge is a borough located in Essex County, New Jersey, USA. It is a residential community of about 7,000. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D) Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ...

From 1946 onward, Groff Conklin's name on a science fiction anthology was a guarantee of quality. Among his 41 anthologies were A Treasury of Science Fiction (1948), and 1965's 13 Above the Night. He and his wife, the former Lucy Tempkin, collaborated on The Supernatural Reader in 1953, a year before her death. They had married October 1st, 1937. Four years after Lucy's death, Conklin married Florence Wohlken. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Prior to his first science fiction anthology (The Best of Science Fiction, 1946), Conklin was involved with a number of other publishing ventures. In 1930 at the age of 26, while still in college and employed as assistant manager at a Doubleday Bookstore in New York, he arranged for the publication of a hardcover edition of a story that originally ran in the November 1913 issue of The Smart Set Magazine written by Irish writer George Moore titled "A Flood," in a limited edition of 185 signed copies. Four years later, in 1934, Conklin and Burton Rascoe published The Smart Set Anthology (later reissued as The Bachelor's Companion in 1944) the first collection of stories from that important literary magazine. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Conklin's interest in short fiction continued with the 1936 publication of The New Republic Anthology: 1915-1935, edited with Bruce Bliven. In the next decade, he would write poetry, numerous articles, and books about subways, rental libraries, and home construction. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Conklin wrote a book review column, "Galaxy's Five-Star Shelf", for Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, from its premiere issue in October 1950 until October, 1955. During this period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Asimov's I, Robot. The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein in Galaxy, Sept. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential authors in the science fiction genre. ... Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov (c. ...

Educated at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Columbia, Conklin drifted restlessly through a series of jobs in the 1930s and 1940s (working for several government agencies during WWII) before finding his niche as an editor. His book, The Weather-Conditioned House, published in 1958, is not science fiction but a practical discussion of the methods of weather-conditioning a house. The book was authoritative enough that it was reissued, with an update, in 1982. // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...