James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 - December 23, 2020) was a science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist from the United States. His anthology editing credits include the six-volume Road to Science Fiction series. He earned the Hugo Award for "Best Related Work" in 1983, and he was nominated or won several additional awards for his non-fiction works in science fiction studies. In 2007, he was named the 24th Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015. His novel The Immortals was made into a TV series starring Christopher George in 1970-71. Gunn was a retired English professor and the founder of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Gunn was born on July 12, 1923, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Jesse and Elsie Mae (née Hutchison) Gunn. His father was a printer, his two uncles were pressmen, another uncle was a proofreader, and his grandfather was a newspaper editor. Benjamin Gunn, his grandfather, was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not. He had visited every county in every state in the country as a Masonic delegate and could name them all, including where he had spent the night.
