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Sturgeon's original novels were all published between 1950 and 1961, and the bulk of his short story work dated from the 1940s and 1950s. Though he continued to write through 1983, his work rate dipped noticeably in the later years of his life; a 1971 story collection entitled ''Sturgeon Is Alive and Well...'' addressed Sturgeon's seeming withdrawal from the public eye in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Sturgeon lived for several years in [[Springfield, Oregon]].<ref name=Portal>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LPFVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2474,2425068&dq |title= Famed author, award-winner, dies in Eugene |last= Portal |first= Ann |date= May 10, 1985 |work= [[The Register-Guard]] |location= Eugene, Oregon |access-date= 2011-06-20 |archive-date= 2021-03-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210304063357/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LPFVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2474,2425068&dq |url-status= live }}</ref> He died on May 8, 1985, of [[lung fibrosis]], at [[Sacred Heart Medical Center University District|Sacred Heart General Hospital]] in the neighboring city of [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]].<ref name=Portal/>
He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the [[Trap Door Spiders]], which served as the basis of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s fictional group of mystery solvers the [[Black Widowers]]. Sturgeon was the inspiration for the recurrent character of [[Kilgore Trout]] in the novels of [[
==Sturgeon's Law==
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