Vincent Di Fate (born November 21, 1945)
[ is an American artist specializing in ]science fiction
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, fantasy
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and realistic space art
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(hardware art) illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.[
Di Fate was born in ]Yonkers, New York
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.[ He studied at the Phoenix School of Design in ]New York City
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and received his MA in Illustration at Syracuse University.
He broke into speculative fiction pulp magazines
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with illustrations for three different stories in the August 1969 issue of ''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
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'', edited by John W. Campbell
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, and did his first cover illustration for the November issue.[
Di Fate calls his 1997 book ''Infinite Worlds'' "the first comprehensive history of science fiction art in America".][
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Awards
Di Fate won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
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at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention
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(for 1978 work) and was nominated ten times from 1972 to 1985.[ For his lifetime contributions he won the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) from the ]New England Science Fiction Association
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in 1987 and the Chesley Award from the fantasy and science fiction artists in 1998.[ He also won the Frank R. Paul Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction Illustration (1978) and the Lensman Award for lifetime contribution in 1990 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 ]Worldcon
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.[ He won the Rondo at the 2003 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards for his work on the Monster-Mania Convention Program Cover.
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Books
* ''Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware'' (Workman Publishing Co, 1980), Di Fate and Ian Summers /0-89480-126-0 (pbk.)
* ''Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art'' (Penguin, 1997)
* ''The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate'' (Paper Tiger, 2002)[
''Infinite Worlds'' won the annual Art Book ]Locus Award
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Vincent di Fate
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1945 births
Living people
American speculative fiction artists
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Fantasy artists
Hugo Award-winning artists
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
People from Yonkers, New York
Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
Science fiction artists
Syracuse University alumni