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