“I had won a science award in high school. His father’s work inspired Doherty, who decided to attend Trinity College as a chemical engineering major. Throughout the war years, Doherty’s father was an engineer for Pratt & Whitney and was part of the team that designed the country’s first jet engines. He took to the magazine quickly and then began to branch out, eventually reading other magazines like Galaxy Science Fiction.
His grandfather and mother read to him as a child, and when he was old enough to read on his own, they got him a subscription to Astounding Science Fiction. From an early age, he was introduced to reading. Tom Doherty is its founding father.ĭoherty was born on April 23, 1935. Since its inception, Tor Books has become one of the biggest names in science-fiction publishing.
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