From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Chip . . .was Re: Grad Schools
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:16:56 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:03 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Chip . . .was Re: Grad Schools

> > twhite8 at cox.net 10/21/04 11:48:56 AM >>>
>
> >> re: degrees . . . I've been amused over Chip Delany being a
> >tenured
> >> professor of English and creative writing at Temple
> >University.
> >>
> >> Why?
> >>
> >> Ain't got no degree . . . no BA, no MA . . .nada.  He did
> >attend Bronx
> >> high Scool of Science.
> >
> >A professor of English who couldn't spell.  Never learned to.
>
> His 1989 Hugo winning memoir, The Motion of Light on Water: Sex and
> Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965, was recently
> reissued in trade pb.   Fascinating reading, though I must wonder what
> it's like for his daughter to be reading about her parents' sexual
> activities.  He is graphic without be prurient.
>
> He must have had a good copy editor.

He usually has had.   His misspellings were notorious in NYC editing
circles in the '60s.   I'd like to read his memoir; who published the trade
pb?

--Ted White