Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:00:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Lloyd Biggle, Jr; 1923 - 2002
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
    memoryhole <memoryhole at yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> >From the smofs list:
>
> This was sent to info at nesfa.org
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:30:11 -0400
> From: kbggl Biggle <kbggl at msn.com>
> To: Sharon Sbarsky <sbarsky at theworld.com>
> Subject: [WSFA] [info] Death of Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
> {01}
>
>        Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Ph. D., musician,
> author, and
> internationally known oral historian died September
> 12, 2002, after a
> twenty-year battle with leukemia and cancer.

Nicki and I had corresponded with him in 1988, when he
was researching his historical fiction book about the
Civil War _Where Dead Soldiers Walk_.  He mentioned us
in the afterword to the book:

"How does an author go about seting a novel in a place
he glimpsed only once, briefly? ... A local contact is
invaluable, and [an inquiry] brought me the names of
Dick Lynch and his wife, Nicki, who were flatteringly
willing to assist an author. ... Unfortunately, before
I was able to carry my research to Chattanooga, they
moved to Maryland and I have never had the pleasure of
meeting them."

After we moved north (in September 1988), Julia Morgan
Scott continued to provide him the help he needed (he
mentioned her in the afterward, as well).  But we
never did get to meet him.  My loss, certainly -- I
know I would have very much enjoyed talking to him, as
he shared my interest in the history of this genre.

=====
Rich Lynch
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MIMOSA web site: http://jophan.org/mimosa/
1960s Fan History Site: http://jophan.org/1960s/

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