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{{short description|American novelist}}

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'''Ejler Jakobsson''' (December 6, 1911 – October 5, 1984) was an American science fiction editor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jakobsson_ejler|title=Authors : Jakobsson, Ejler : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref>

Born in Finland, Jakobsson moved to the United States in 1926 and began a career as an author in the 1930s.  He married Edith Kane (1915–1997) in 1935.<ref>{{cite news |title=Edith Jakobsson, 81: Former Writer and Reader's Digest Employee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108212223/edith-jakobsson-1915-1995/ |work=The Herald Statesman |date=February 28, 1997 |location=Yonkers, NY |page=26 |accessdate=August 24, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> He worked on ''[[Astonishing Stories]]'' and ''[[Super Science Stories]]'' briefly before they shut down production due to paper shortages.  When ''Super Science Stories'' was revived in 1949, Jakobson was named editor until it ended publication two years later. He was an editor for Graphic Books in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Westerners for Women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108212157/ejler-jakobsson-1911-1984/ |work=Albuquerque Journal |date=June 21, 1956 |location=Albuquerque, NM |page=26 |accessdate=August 24, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> Jakobsson returned to editing in 1969, when he took over ''[[Galaxy science fiction|Galaxy]]'' and ''[[If (magazine)|If]]'', succeeding [[Frederik Pohl]].  He worked to make the magazines more contemporary with the help of [[Judy-Lynn del Rey]] and [[Lester del Rey]].  He left the magazines in 1974 and was succeeded by [[Jim Baen]].<ref name=":0" />

He died in [[Pleasantville, New York]] in 1984.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacobsson, Eljer [sic] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108212263/ejler-jakobsson-1911-1984/ |work=The Daily Times |date=October 8, 1984 |location=Mamaroneck, NY |page=4 |accessdate=August 24, 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>

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[[Category:Finnish speculative fiction editors]]
[[Category:20th-century American male writers]]


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