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Damon Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was a science fiction fan, writer, critic, teacher, editor, and the founder and first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).

In the 1940s, Knight was a member of the Futurians, a group of writers and fans in New York, along with Isaac Asimov, Donald Wollheim, and other luminaries of the Golden Age of science fiction, and he was interacting with both fans and writers 50 years later as a member of an early online community, the Science Fiction Roundtable (SFRT) on GEnie, into the mid-1990s.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden has described Knight's collection of essays In Search of Wonder (first edition, 1956) as "the founding document of modern SF criticism" [1].

Knight edited the Orbit series of anthologies (21 volumes, 1966-2000).

His best-known short story "To Serve Man" 1950 was adapted for The Twilight Zone and is frequently referred to in other SF (e.g. Bender's apron in the Futurama episode "My Three Suns").

Knight was married to writer Kate Wilhelm.

Notes

1. Obituary of Damon Knight at sfwa.org

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