Cele Goldsmith Lalli

CELE GOLDSMITH LALLI edited Amazing Stories and Fantastic for seven years, from 1958 to 1965, and co-authored Modern Bride Complete Wedding Planner and Modern Bride Guide to Etiquette.

Lalli received a special Hugo Award in 1962 for her editing work on those magazines. During her tenure she published early work by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Thomas M. Disch. She subsequently spent 30 years at Modern Bride, rising to Editor-in-Chief and becoming a nationally recognized authority on weddings.

Lalli was born on April 8, 1933, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and began her publishing career at Ziff-Davis in 1955. She died on January 14, 2002, in a car accident in Newtown, Connecticut.

Cele Goldsmith Lalli’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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