Cory Doctorow Bio | Wiki
Cory Doctorow (Full name: Cory Efram Doctorow) is a Canadian-British journalist, blogger, and science fiction author. He previously served as the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. Cory is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws as well as a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of Cory’s work include file sharing, digital rights management, and post-scarcity economics.
Cory Doctorow Age
He was born on July 17, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cory is 50 years old.
Cory Doctorow Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Cory stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m).
Cory Doctorow Family
He was born to his parents in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cory became a British citizen by naturalization on 12 August 2011. He is of Eastern European Jewish descent. Cory’s paternal grandfather was born in current Poland while his paternal grandmother originated from Leningrad. During World War II, both fled Nazi Germany’s advance eastward and Cory’s father was born in a displaced person camp near Baku, Azerbaijan.
Cory’s father and grandmother emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union. His mother and her family were Ukrainian-Russian Romanians. Cory was a friend of Columbia law professor Tim Wu while in elementary school. As a young teenager, Cory went to summer camp at Grindstone Island, near Portland, Ontario at what he has described as a “hippy summer camp.” The place was influential on his intellectual life and development.
Cory Doctorow Wife
He is married to a British entrepreneur called Alice Taylor who is the founder of an entertainment playspace for young people called MakieLab that will invite users to download and print 3D dolls and accessories. The couple tied the knot in 2008. In the same year, their daughter Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow was born. Alice moved with her family from London to Los Angeles, in the United States in the early 2000s.
Cory Doctorow Education
He received his Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the SEED School in Toronto after he quit high school. Cory attended four universities without obtaining a degree. He has stated that he is not related to the American novelist E. L. Doctorow
Cory Doctorow Blog | Boing Boing
Initially, he was a co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. Cory left Boing Boing in January 2020. He started a solo blogging project titled Pluralistic shortly after. The circumstances surrounding his exit from the website were unclear at the time, although Cory acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of Boing Boing. Given the end of the 19-year association between him and Boing Boing, MetaFilter described this news as “the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up” for the blog world. Cory’s exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, his name was quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020.
Cory Doctorow Little Brother
He released the bestselling novel titled Little Brother with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license in 2008. In 2009, the novel was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. It won the Prometheus Award in 2009, Sunburst Award, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2009.
In October 2009, Cory’s novel Makers was released and serialized for free on the Tor Books website. He also released another young adult novel titled For the Win, in May 2010. The novel is available as a Creative Commons download free on the author’s website. Also, it is published in traditional paper format by Tor Books. On October 13, 2020,a standalone adult novel, Attack Surface, set in the “Little Brother” universe, was released.
Cory Doctorow Books
Novels
– 2003 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor.
– 2004 Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor.
– 2005 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Tor.
– 2008 Little Brother. Tom Doherty Associates.
– 2009 Makers. Tor.
– 2010 For the Win. Tor.
– November 1, 2011, The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,
– 2012 The Rapture of the Nerds. Tor. September (with Charles Stross)
– October 12, 2012, Pirate Cinema. Tor.
– February 5, 2013. Homeland. Tor.
– April 25, 2017. Walkaway. Tor.
– October 1, 2020. Attack Surface. Head of Zeus.
Graphic novels
– October 14, 2014, In Real Life. Illustrated by Jen Wang. First Second.
– July 14, 2020, Poesy the Monster Slayer. Illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. First Second.
Collections
– 2003 A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Four Walls Eight Windows.
– 2007 Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. Thunder’s Mouth Press.
– 2009 With a Little Help. Cor-Doc Co.
– 2011 Other instance: With a little help. CreateSpace.
– 2019 Radicalized. Tor. 19 March
Cory Doctorow Net Worth
He is a Canadian-British journalist, blogger, and science fiction author who has accumulated an estimated net worth of $2,594,782.
How Old Is Cory Doctorow
Cory is 50 years old. He was born on July 17, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Is Cory Doctorow Married
He is married to a British entrepreneur called Alice Taylor who is the founder of an entertainment playspace for young people called MakieLab. The couple tied the knot in 2008. In the same year, their daughter Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow was born.
Who Is Cory Doctorow
Cory is a Canadian-British journalist, blogger, and science fiction author. He previously served as the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.