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==Life and family==
Theodore's birth father, Edward Waldo, was a color and dye manufacturer of middling success. With his second wife, Anne, he had one daughter, Joan. Theodore's mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker (Waldo) Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry, and fiction under the name Felix Sturgeon. His stepfather, William Dickie Sturgeon (sometimes known as Argyll), was a mathematics teacher at a prep school and then Romance Languages Professor at Drexel Institute [later [[Drexel Institute of Technology]]] in Philadelphia. Sturgeon's account of his stepfather is included in a posthumous memoir.<ref name="Argyll">Sturgeon, Theodore (1993). ''Argyll; A Memoir'', Entwhistle Books. {{ISBN|978-0934558167}}</ref> Sturgeon's sibling, [[Peter A. Sturgeon|Peter Sturgeon]], wrote technical material for the pharmaceutical industry and the [[World Health Organization|WHO]], and founded the American branch of [[Mensa International|Mensa]].
Sturgeon held a wide variety of jobs during his lifetime. As an adolescent, he wanted to be a circus [[acrobatics|acrobat]]; an episode of [[rheumatic fever]] prevented him from pursuing this. From 1935 (aged 17) to 1938, he was a sailor in the [[merchant marine]], and elements of that experience found their way into several stories. He sold [[refrigerator]]s door to door. He managed a hotel in [[Jamaica]] around 1940–1941, worked in several construction and infrastructure jobs (driving a bulldozer in [[Puerto Rico]], operating a [[gas station]] and truck lubrication center, work at a [[drydock]]) for the US Army in the early war years, and by 1944 was an advertising copywriter. In addition to freelance fiction and television writing, in New York City he opened his own literary agency<ref name="Agency">{{Cite book |title=Bright Segment |last=Sturgeon |first=Theodore |publisher=North Atlantic Books |year=2002 |isbn=1556433980 |editor-last=Williams |editor-first=Paul |pages=xiii |chapter=Foreward by William Tenn}}</ref> (which was eventually transferred to [[Scott Meredith]]), worked for ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine and other Time Inc. properties on circulation, and edited various publications. Sturgeon had somewhat irregular output, frequently suffering from [[writer's block]].
Sturgeon played guitar and wrote music which he sometimes performed at [[
▲Sturgeon played guitar and wrote music which he sometimes performed at [[Science Fiction Convention]]s.
Sturgeon was married three times, had two long-term committed relationships outside of marriage, divorced once, and fathered a total of seven children.
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