Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:45:48 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Wilson "Bob" Tucker (1914-2006)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> > kfl at KeithLynch.net 10/7/2006 1:25:40 PM >>> Wilson "Bob" Tucker
> > (1914-2006)
> >
> > As reported at http://www.sfwa.org/news/2006/wtucker.htm
>
>  One of the Jiants of fandom.
>
>  More on Tucker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Tucker
>
>  There's this amusing tale of the Olde Days:
>  http://jophan.org/mimosa/m16/cinci.htm .
>
>  And in 1978 Disclave had as Pro GoH: Wilson Tucker, Fan GoH was Bob
>  Tucker.
>
>  HE was also a darn good writer.  If you come across his fiction (sf
>  and mystery) do yourself a favor and give it a try.

Indeed.  And Bob is the man who invented fannish fandom, circa 1935.

--Ted White