Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:36:22 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <elaine.brennan at att.net>,<wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,
    <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jack Williamson
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I was incredibly pleased when he agreed to be a GoH at the 2003 WFC in
DC, even though he really didn't expect to attend (tho at one point
...).  I was able to talk him into it not to have him as a big name GoH,
but to _honor_  him for 75 years of writing.  His first published story
was late 1928.

In my own way I was rather amazed exchanging email with him, not so much
for his age, but the fact his life covered so much our technology: from
Connestoga wagon, moving from and to a Territory....  It was one of
those "sense of wonder" moments.

mjw
Top posting from London

>>> elaine.brennan at att.net 11/10/06 7:31 PM >>>

Jack Williamson died this morning, at home.   He was 98.   His most
recent book was *The Stonenhenge Gate*, published in 2005.