Ben Bova
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label: Бова, Бен @ru
label: ベン・ボーヴァ @ja
label: بن بوفا @ar
label: Бен Бова @uk
label: 벤 보바 @ko
subject: Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
subject: Category:20th-century American short story writers
subject: Category:American male short story writers
subject: Category:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
subject: Category:Technical writers
subject: Category:American science fiction writers
subject: Category:People from West Hartford, Connecticut
subject: Category:Inkpot Award winners
subject: Category:Writers from Philadelphia
subject: Category:American science fiction critics
subject: Category:Writers about religion and science
subject: Category:20th-century American novelists
subject: Category:American male novelists
subject: Category:Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
subject: Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Florida
subject: Category:American atheists
subject: Category:American writers of Italian descent
subject: Category:20th-century American essayists
subject: Category:21st-century American essayists
subject: Category:21st-century American male writers
subject: Category:21st-century American short story writers
subject: Category:American male non-fiction writers
subject: Category:American male essayists
subject: Category:21st-century American novelists
subject: Category:2020 deaths
subject: Category:American critics of religions
subject: Category:1932 births
subject: Category:Novelists from Connecticut
subject: Category:Temple University alumni
subject: Category:20th-century American male writers
subject: Category:Hugo Award–winning editors
subject: Category:Presidents of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
subject: Category:American anthologists
subject: Category:American science fiction editors
subject: Category:Novelists from Pennsylvania
subject: Category:Writers of books about writing fiction
subject: Category:California Coast University alumni
subject: Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida
genre: Science fiction
spouse: Rosa Cucinotta
spouse: Barbara Berson Rose
awards: Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor
awards: Inkpot Award
birth name: Benjamin William Bova
education: California Coast University
education: University at Albany, SUNY
education: South Philadelphia High School
education: Temple University
imdb id: 0100550
type: author
birth place: Pennsylvania
birth place: Philadelphia
death place: Naples, Florida
birth date: 1932-11-08
birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
death place: Naples, Florida, U.S.
occupation: essayist
occupation: Author
occupation: journalist
description: American writer (1932–2020)