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Just occurred to me that Jack Vance (born 1916) is also a Golden Age writer. He started in the forties, Big Planet was first published in 1952, to be followed by many, many others, including the Demon Princes novels, the Durdane trilogy, the Cadwal Chronicles, the Planet of Adventure quartet, the Alastor Cluster novels etc. The thing is that unlike many others, Vance lived to a ripe old age (96 from memory) and kept on writing great novels (eg Night Lamp published in 1996) well into old age.
I was a bit late discovering him (probably early 1970s before I read Star King) but as with James Blish he seems just as important and influential an SF writer as the Big 3 to me.
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