Date: 2013-04-09 08:56 pm (UTC)
No. Absolutely not. Zelazny did not die in poverty; that's a cruel urban myth.

I researched and wrote Zelazny's biography ("...And Call Me Conrad": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny) which is contained within the six-volume THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROGER ZELAZNY from NESFA Press. And to answer the other speculation below, Zelazny moved out to join Jane Lindskold. He separated but did not divorce. He was well off at the time of his death and had, for example, full medical insurance coverage, unlike many sf writers who cannot afford it and have to make use of the SFWA Medical Emergency fund. Just a few years before he'd had what David Hartwell termed an extraordinarily high advance for a trilogy of Amber novels; those books were so commercially successful that they became the five Merlin books. He was well off and supporting his family at the time of his death.
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