Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:21:07 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Coincidence? Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > twhite8 at cox.net 10/25/2006 10:29:05 PM >>> >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. Brown had two sons from his first marriage. The second marriage had no children. See: http://www.rudysbooks.com/brownobit.html Perhaps Richard Moore is misremembering. I couldn't say. I don't know. I wasn't there. I have no idea if Lee's grandfather was Fred Brown. mjw