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{{Short description|American editor, author (1924–1985)}}
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[[File:Science fiction quarterly 195108.jpg|thumb|right|Shaw's "Seeds of Insecurity" was the cover story on the August 1951 issue of ''[[Science Fiction Quarterly]]'']]
 
'''Lawrence Taylor Shaw''' (November 9, November1924 1924&ndash;1 April 1, 1985) was aan American [[Hugo Award]]-winning [[science fiction]] [[science fiction fandom|fan]], author, editor and [[literary agent]] who usually published as '''Larry T. Shaw'''.
 
Shaw joined a group of science fiction writers known as the [[Futurians]] during the early 1940s. From 1948 through the early 1950s, he wrote short fiction before becoming an [[science fiction editors|editor]] for the magazines ''[[If (magazine)|If]]'' and later ''[[Infinity Science Fiction]]''. He published [[Harlan Ellison|Harlan Ellison's]] first magazine story "Glowworm" (1955) in ''Infinity Science Fiction'', after Ellison's first sale to [[EC Comics]].
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From 1954 to 1955 Shaw edited ''Rodding and Re-Styling'', an automotive sports magazine.<ref name=T_73>Ashley, ''Transformations'', p.&nbsp;73.</ref>
 
After those magazines terminated during 1958, Shaw edited [[monster movie]] magazines, automotive magazines and other material until 1963, when he began editing for Irwin Stein's company [[Lancer Books]]. He continued working as an editor until 1975, when he began work mainly as a literary agent. He received a Special [[Hugo Award]] during 1984 for lifetime achievement as an editor.<ref>[http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/Hugos/hugos1984.html Long List of Hugo Awards: 1984]</ref>
 
Shaw was married to science fiction and Spur Award-winning [[Western fiction]] author [[Lee Hoffman]] from 1956 to 1958. He later married Noreen Kane (1930–2005). Shaw died of [[cancer]] on 1 April, 1
1985.
 
== References ==
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== Sources==
*{{cite book | first=Mike | last=Ashley | title=Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 | publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]] | location=Liverpool | year=2005 | isbn= 0-85323-779-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/transformationsv0000ashl }}
 
==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author | id=Shaw,+Larry+T.25718}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Larry Shaw |birth=1924 |death=1985 |sopt=t}}
* {{Librivox author |id=8428}}
 
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[[Category:American book editors]]
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