Background
Joe William Haldeman was born on June 9, 1943, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Joe and Gay Haldeman, 1995
Jack and Joe (right) Haldeman, with mother Lorena, about 1946
Haldeman in Vietnam, 1968
With wife, Gay, 1970
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Joe William Haldeman was born on June 9, 1943, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Haldeman studied at local schools. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. In 1975, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Also, he attended American University and University of Oklahoma and participated in the Milford Writer’s Workshop.
Joe William Haldeman served as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and earned a Purple Heart. This experience informed his best known work, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Forever War. In addition to continuing to produce top quality since fiction, Joe Haldeman teaches writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joe Haldeman is known as the contributor to major science fiction anthologies, contributor of numerous short stories and articles to Analog,Galaxy, Isaac Asimov’s SF Adventures, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni, Playboy, and other publications.
He was awarded several medals, including a Purple Heart. Haldeman sold his first story in 1969 and has since written over two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry. He has won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his novels, novellas, poems, and short stories, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the Rhysling Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in June 2012.
Joe Haldeman's vision of the universe was profoundly shaped by the Vietnam War. Vietnam surfaces as a theme, a backdrop, or a reference point in many of his stories.
Haldeman is a member of the Authors Guild and Science Fiction Writers of America.
On August 21, 1965, Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, a teacher.
