John Kippax, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British writer
Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1915
Place of Birth: Alwalton, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 17-Jul-1974
Profession: science fiction writer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About John Kippax
- John Kippax was the pen name of English science fiction writer John Charles Hynam, author of many short stories and the Venturer Twelve series of space opera novels (most in collaboration with Dan Morgan). Hynam was killed on the afternoon of 17 July 1974 when a lorry hit his car at Werrington, a few miles outside Peterborough.
- He left a wife, Phyl, and a daughter, Jennifer - who a week later gave birth to his first grandchild, a son, an event which he was awaiting with eager anticipation. In the postscript to "Where No Stars Guide", published posthumously in 1975, Hynam's literary collaborator and close personal friend Dan Morgan wrote: "John had a larger-than-life physical and psychic presence.
- Likeable, eccentric, egocentric, kind, brusque, take your pick from the thesaurus to describe him, he was all of these and more.
- A man of enormous enthusiasms, he died as lived, at full speed".
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