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Philip Wylie

Born

in Beverly, Massachusetts, The United States

May 12, 1902

Died

October 25, 1971

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wylie

Genre

Science Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy

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Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Philip Gordon Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old. His family moved to Montclair, New Jersey and he later attended Princeton University from 1920–1923. He married Sally Ondek, and had one child, Karen, an author who became the inventor of animal "clicker" training. After a divorcing his first wife, Philip Wylie married Frederica Ballard who was born and raised in Rushford, New York; they are both buried in Rushford.

A writer of fiction and nonfiction, his output included hundreds of short stories, articles, serials, syndicated newspaper columns, novels, and works of social criticism. He also wrote scre ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 6,031 ratings · 807 reviews · 112 distinct works • Similar authors

	When Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1) by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer, John Varley (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 2,446 ratings — published 1932 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #2) by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer 3.84 avg rating — 972 ratings — published 1933 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gladiator 3.77 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1930 — 119 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disappearance by Philip Wylie, Robert Silverberg (Introduction) 3.61 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 1951 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow! 3.81 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1954 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triumph 4.07 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1963 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Worlds Collide / After Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1-2) by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer 4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1934 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Generation of Vipers 3.79 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1942 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Dream by Philip Wylie, John Brunner (introduction) 3.21 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1972 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crunch & Des: Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing by Philip Wylie, Karen Wylie Pryor (Editor) 4.59 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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When Worlds Collide (2 books)
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Edwin Balmer

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“Light was the symbol I tried to give them...The Cross was the symbol they adopted. The pain of self-sacrifice was obvious to them. The subjective reward--incomprehensible. Thus they changed it all. I told them of many mansions. They chose this mansion or that--scoured each other off the earth, to set one heaven in place of the heaven of those they defeated. Holy wars! Is such a thing conceivable to God as a holy war? Alas. The words--the images--the effort is still uncomprehended. I said Light. I said truth. I said Freedom. I meant enlightenment. Yet nearly every church that uses my name is a wall against light and a rampart against enlightenment, using fear, not love, to chain the generations in terror and pain and ignorance . . . And now--this is called civilization, and in my name, also!”
― Philip Wylie, Opus 21

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“The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”
― Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
― Philip Wylie

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When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie

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