Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120[2] works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.[3]
Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova
November 8, 1932
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
November 29, 2020 (aged 88)
Naples, Florida, U.S.
- Author
- essayist
- journalist
Science fiction
Personal life and education[edit]
Ben Bova was born on November 8, 1932, in Philadelphia. He graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1949. In 1953, while attending Temple University in Philadelphia, he married Rosa Cucinotta; they had a son and a daughter. The couple divorced in 1974. That year he married Barbara Berson Rose.[4] Barbara Bova died on September 23, 2009.[5] Bova dedicated his 2011 novel Power Play to Barbara. In March 2013, he announced on his website that he had remarried, to Rashida Loya.[2]
Bova was an atheist and was critical of what he saw as the unquestioning nature of religion.[6] He wrote an op-ed piece in 2012, in which he argued that atheists can be just as moral as religious believers.[7]
He went back to school in the 1980s, earning a Master of Arts degree in communications in 1987 from the State University of New York at Albany and a Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University in 1996.[2]
Bova died from COVID-19-related pneumonia and a stroke on November 29, 2020, at the age of 88.[8]
