Lawrence Van Cott Niven was born in Los Angeles and attended the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1956-58, but didn’t graduate. He got his BA in mathematics from Washburn University in Topeka KS in 1962, then returned to California to do post-graduate work at UCLA from 1962-63.
Niven began freelance writing in 1964, the year of his first short fiction publication, “The Coldest Place”, in If. He won ...Read More