Douglas Hill

Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto. He married fellow writer and U. of S. alumna Gail Robinson in 1958; they moved to Britain in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. In 1967–1968 he served as assistant editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock. ^{Douglas Hill, Canadian author and critic (d. 2007)}

6 April 1935

Born on the same birth day (6 April): Don Prudhomme • Lee Scott (politician) • Marcel-Marie Desmarais • Philipp Peter • Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune • Sinqua Walls • Stanislas de Guaita • Tanja Poutiainen • Valentina (French singer)

Born in the same month (April 1935): Bhama Srinivasan • Bob Gutowski • Bobby Bare • Charles Grodin • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Donald Lynden-Bell • Geoff Braybrooke • Giovanni Cianfriglia • Hodding Carter III • Larry McDonald • Marcel Carrière • Oscar Zeta Acosta • Patrick Garland • Paul Chambers • Pedro Ramos • Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton • Thomas Kean • Trevor Griffiths