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Urrea is a Mexican-American novelist and professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. His memoir, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, received the American Book Award in 1999 and his nonfiction book, The Devil鈥檚 Highway: A True Story, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Williamson was a successful science-fiction writer from 1928 to 2005. He was named the second Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1976 and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1996. He is credited with inventing the term 鈥渢erraforming鈥 in a 1942 short story.