Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:16:49 -0400
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Coincidence?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ted White wrote:
> So tonight as the weekly meeting of my writers group, The Vicious Circle
> (so-named by Charles Sheffield decades ago), Richard Moore noticed the
> printed copy of Alexis's open letter sitting on my table, and we fell to
> discussing recent events.  By way of explaining them, I told him about
> Keith Googling Lee in 2002 and what he turned up.
>
> "Mighod," said Richard, who is both a SF and mystery fan, but more of a
> mystery fan, "I remember this woman who turned up *years* ago at a
> Bouchercon, claiming to be Fredric Brown's daughter!"  He began
> describing her to me.  It was Lee -- then Lee Uba.  "I don't think
> anybody believed her," he said.  "It was just a story."
>
> And maybe a story that embarrassed her by 2002, when Keith turned it up
> on Rich's on-line fanhistory Outline.
>
> --Ted White
>

And if she was born in 1954, wouldn't she have been too young to have
served in the Army during the Vietnam War era? The troops were out by
January 1973, and she would have been 18, unless she was born in January.

I thought she was supposed to be Frederic Brown's granddaughter. --Eva