A Collection Of Fortean Biographies

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Joshua Blu Buhs, author of 'Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend', has an eponymous website:

www.joshuablubuhs.com

Contained therein, is a collection of detailed biographies pertaining to preeminent Fortean and 'non-Fortean' figures.

Publications are located on top, left-hand side, drop-down menu under, 'The Forteans' and' 'Blog'.

The biographies include:

Martin Gardner as a(n anti-?) Fortean
Charles Hutchins Hapgood as a Fortean
Eric Frank Russell as a Fortean
Raymond A. Palmer as a Fortean
P. E. Cleator and H. L. Mencken as anti-Forteans
Ivan Terence Sanderson as a Fortean
Benjamin DeCasseres as a Fortean
Joseph Henry Jackson as a Fortean
Sam Moskowitz as an anti-Fortean
John W. Campbell, Jr., as a Fortean
(note to click on, 'Read More').

Seperately, there is one other biography:

H. Allen Smith as an (Anti-) Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/h-allen-smith-as-an-anti-fortean


As I can't locate any previous references to this, wondered if it might be of interest.

I'm finding the content fascinating - shall keep myself occupied for a while.

 

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Seemingly not linked from the introduction, there are additional biographies, some of which are extensive:

I O Evans as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/i-o-evans-as-a-fortean


Ben(edict) Abramson as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/benedict-abramson-as-a-fortean


Lilith Lorraine as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/lilith-lorraine-as-a-fortean


Vora May (Storey) Sowers as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/vora-may-storey-sowers-as-a-fortean


Voltaire Molesworth as a Fortean (Updated)

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/voltaire-molesworth-as-a-fortean


Harry Price as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/harry-price-as-a-fortean


Julian F. Parr as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/julian-f-parr-as-a-fortean


Erle Melvin Korshak as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/erle-melvin-korshak-as-a-fortean


Allen Elias Flagg as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/allen-elias-flagg-as-a-fortean


Francis Milton Bush as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/francis-milton-bush-as-a-fortean


Guy Powell as a Fortean (Updated and Revised)

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/guy-powell-as-a-fortean-updated-and-revised


Raymond A. Cass as a Fortean (Updated and Revised)

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/raymond-a-cass-as-a-fortean-updated-and-revised


Frank S. and Frank A. Lonc as Forteans

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/frank-s-and-frank-a-lonc-as-forteans

 

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I have now unearthed further related and quite monumental material, which incorporates:

Henry Miller as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/henry-miller-as-a-fortean


Claude D. Dodgin (aka Maurice Doreal) as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/claude-d-dodgin-aka-maurice-doreal-as-a-fortean


Ella Young as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/ella-young-as-a-fortean


Sidney L Birchby as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/sidney-l-birchby-as-a-fortean


Newton Meade Layne as Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/newton-meade-layne-as-fortean


Albert E. Page as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/albert-e-page-as-a-fortean


Alfred H. Barley as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/alfred-h-barley-as-a-fortean


Odo B. Stade as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/odo-b-stade-as-a-fortean


Ray Jurgen as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/ray-jurgen-as-a-fortean


Guy Fred and Nell Foster Rogers as Forteans

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/guy-fred-and-nell-foster-rogers-as-forteans


Scott Nearing as a Fortean (and Helen Knothe Nearing, too)

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/scott-nearing-as-a-fortean-and-helen-knothe-nearing-too


Hereward Carrington as a Fortean

https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/hereward-carrington-as-a-fortean

 

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I happened upon the following and wondered if it might be of interest.

It assuredly was to myself, being Glasgow born and I knew absolutely nothing about this remarkable fellow Fortean.

‘Behind the Tartan Curtain’: Edwin Morgan in the University of Glasgow Archive
by Catriona Perry, Graduate Trainee, Archives &Special Collections

16 January, 2015

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) was Glasgow’s first Poet Laureate and Scotland’s first National Poet (The Scots Makar), and had a long association with the University of Glasgow. To mark the centenary year of Morgan’s birth, we decided to trace him through the University Archive, as a student, tutor and contributor to campus publications.

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https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/tag/edwin-morgan/


Edwin Morgan & The Fortean Society
by Kerry Patterson

Looking through Edwin Morgan’s series of 16 Scrapbooks, it is apparent that he had a keen eye for unusual news stories. The cuttings include reports of UFO, ghost and Loch Ness Monster sightings as well as quirky tales of all kinds. For example, Scrapbook 9 includes stories about a man growing a horn out of his arm, a brutal wrestling match where men kick each other in the shins with clogs, an unusual blue moon seen over Glasgow and a toad reportedly living inside a block of chalk for over 30 years.

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https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/edwin-morgan-the-fortean-society/


Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks Project
by Kerry Patterson

Amongst Morgan’s extensive archive in Special Collections, are sixteen scrapbooks which he sought to have published in 1953 and in the late 1980s but the high costs of printing and copyright clearance made it too difficult. He was meticulous in his organisation of the books, with each page numbered and the sources of many newspaper and magazine cuttings noted. However most of the vast number of images are uncredited, making the scrapbooks particularly appropriate to use in a project of this kind.

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https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/edwin-morgan-scrapbooks-project/