Online Charles Fort Biography

[Comfortably Numb]

Goodness sakes... was looking online for a detailed biography of Charles Fort and discovered this.

If a well known article, obviously just ignore:

http://fortean.wikidot.com/charles-fort

 

[INT21]

Thanks for that CN.

I hadn't read it before.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Love it. If it's someone we don't know, we need to make contact!

Good friends already, I think!

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Thanks for that CN.

I hadn't read it before.

YESSSS... Get in there!!!

Finally posted something in the right forum and there was no previous of same!

:sparta:

 

[EnolaGaia]

I'm not sure what that wiki represents. It appears to have been largely dormant for years. I've seen various proposals and calls for a Fort / Forteana wiki (or equivalent) over the last two decades, but I'm not sure this website is associated with any of those proposed initiatives.

Much of the material in the linked biography was either drawn from, or has subsequently been transplanted into, the Wikipedia article on Fort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort

 

[EnolaGaia]

Here's a transcription of Fort's biography / entry in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal (Prometheus Books, 1996). It includes some tidbits that don't appear in either the wiki or Wikipedia articles.

https://www.discord.org/~lippard/CharlesFort.html

 

[James_H]

I'm not sure what that wiki represents. It appears to have been largely dormant for years. I've seen various proposals and calls for a Fort / Forteana wiki (or equivalent) over the last two decades, but I'm not sure this website is associated with any of those proposed initiatives.

Much of the material in the linked biography was either drawn from, or has subsequently been transplanted into, the Wikipedia article on Fort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort

I vaguely remember the founder turning up here or on the wunderkabinett to promote it when it was launched. I think it's a one person effort.

Edit: here's the thread https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/fortean-wiki.37681/

 

[EnolaGaia]

The notion of a Fortean wiki was discussed for years in this other thread, to which the wiki creator also posted:

Fortopedia
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/fortopedia.11033/

 

[AmCuriousNJ]

Not sure which thread is best to post a link to this online article:

Charles Fort's "Book of the Damned" Turns 100

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/charles-forts-book-of-the-damned-turns-100

(And some people might be disappointed that the article has a rather unflattering opinion of Fort and his work. But the book's anniversary is noted, though.)