Algis Budrys (born January 9, 1931) is a Lithuanian-born American science fiction author.

Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was the son of the consu... (more)

Algis Budrys (born January 9, 1931) is a Lithuanian-born American science fiction author.

Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was the son of the consul-general of the Lithuanian government (the pre-World War II government still recognized after the war by the United States, even though the Soviet-sponsored government was in power throughout most of Budrys's life). His family was sent by the Lithuanian government to the United States in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old.

Budrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the sf magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, is "William Scarff."

Budrys is married and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Budrys also wrote under the pseudonym Frank Mason.

Source: Wikipedia