The Fair Folk (2005) won a World Fantasy Award. Kaye edited many anthologies, mostly SF, fantasy, and horror, but also mystery/crime and volumes of plays. In 1975 he co-founded “reader’s theater” The Open Book in New York City, which staged his play The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, among others. He occasionally taught, including at the New School for Social Research, NYU, and Mercy College. He worked as a journalist from 1963-65 and began editing in 1965, becoming senior editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1966 to 1970, when he went freelance. He attended Penn State, graduating with a BA in 1960 and a master’s in English literature and theater in 1962. Marvin Nathan Kaye was born Main Philadelphia PA. Kaye was best known as a prolific editor and anthologist, and was also an accomplished fiction writer and playwright. Writer and editor Marvin Kaye, 83, died in hospice care in New York.
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