- Author of more than 100 books, mostly in the science fiction and fantasy genres.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 148-150. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Was able to recite The Jaabberwocky in German.
- Could actually dance an Irish Jig.
- His wife, Catherine Adelaide Crook deCamp, said that he "had a mind like a Roman Candle".
- Was one of the first science fiction authors to write about ectogenesis and ectogens, having done so at least as early as 1938, in his short story "Hyperpilosity" that was originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction magazine in April of that year.
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