Biography
Dozois was born July 23, 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to '69 he served in the Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field.
Dozois has said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town.
He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to miss Worldcon for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation. A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant a defibrillator. He was later said to be recovering and preparing to return home from hospital.
He currently lives in Philadelphia.
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