Early Life
Bond's parents were from Nova Scotia, but moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania shortly before his birth in that city. The family later relocated to Philadelphia after World War I. In high school, Bond reviewed plays for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He attended Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia from 1932 to 1934. While at Marshall, he contributed to the Huntington Herald Advertiser and edited the college newspaper, The Parthenon. He met his future wife, Betty Gough Folsom, while at Marshall, and they married in 1934.
Bond worked briefly as a public relations agent for the province of Nova Scotia before beginning his writing career in 1935 with non-fiction for various periodicals. He only wrote occasional non-fiction once he was established as an author of fiction. His first science fiction story was "Down the Dimensions" in the April 1937 issue of Astounding,
He also published articles on philately and served on the Board of Governors / Board of Directors of the British North America Philatelic Society.
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