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 Born in East Prussia in 1931 as Algirdas Jonas Budrys, the writer and editor Algis Budrys has been in the USA since 1936.
He early worked as an assistant to his father, who was Consul General of Lithuania in New York until his death in 1964; this experience has arguably shaped some of Budrys's fiction.
He began publishing SF in 1952 with The High Purpose for ASF, and very rapidly gained a reputation as a leader of the 1950's SF generation, along with Philip K Dick, Robert Sheckley and others, all of whom brought new literacy, mordancy and grace to the field.
In the 1980s, Budrys controversially associated himself with a programme for new writers initiated (or at least inspired) by L Ron Hubbard, arousing fears that Hubbard's Church of Scientology might itself be the source for the apparent affluence of L Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future.
It was, nevertheless, evident by their participation that many SF writers felt these worries to be trivial, and the programme can claim to have introduced several authors of note (like David Zindell). [edit]
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