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Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (March 1, 1902 – August 23, 1959) was an American actor, author and founder of the Fortean Society. ==Biography== Born in Freeport, Illinois, Thayer quit school at age 15 and worked as an actor, reporter, and used-book clerk in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. Aged 16, he toured as the teenaged hero in the Civil War drama ''The Coward''. Thayer contacted American author Charles Fort in 1924. In 1926, Thayer moved to New York City to act, but soon spent more time writing. In 1931 Thayer co-founded the Fortean Society in New York to promote Fort's ideas. Primarily based in New York City, the Society was headed by first president Theodore Dreiser, an old friend of Fort who had helped to get his work published. Early members of the original Society in NYC included such luminaries as Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott and H. L. Mencken. The first 6 issues of ''Doubt'', the Fortean Society's newsletter, were each edited by a different member, starting with Theodore Dreiser. Thayer thereafter took over editorship of subsequent issues. Thayer began to assert extreme control over the society, largely filling the newsletter with articles written by himself, and excommunicating the entire San Francisco chapter, reportedly their largest and most active, after disagreements over the society's direction, and forbidding them to use the name Fortean. During World War II, for example, Thayer used every issue of ''Doubt'' to espouse his politics. He celebrated the escape of Gerhart Eisler, and named Garry Davis an Honorary Fellow of the Society for renouncing his American citizenship. In particular, Thayer frequently expressed opposition to Civil Defense, going to such lengths as encouraging readers to turn on their lights in defiance of air raid sirens. In contrast to the spirit of Charles Fort, he dismissed not only flying saucers as nonsense but also the atomic bomb as a hoax by the US government.〔see "Personalities in Science Fiction: Charles Fort: His Objects Fade in the West", by Robert Barbour Johnson (If, July 1952).〕 Thayer also wrote several novels, including the bestseller ''Thirteen Women'' (1930) which was filmed as ''Thirteen Women'' (1932) and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Thayer wrote a number of novels which contain elements of science fiction or fantasy, including ''Dr. Arnoldi'' (1934) about a world where no-one can die.〔William Tenn, Dr. Arnoldi in Fantasy and Science Fiction,()〕〔see The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, by John Clute and Peter Nicholls (1993).〕 He also wrote "America Needs Indians" and "Raped Again!", the latter described as a blueprint for enslaving entire populations.〔 Thayer also wrote an edition of François Rabelais for children, ''Rabelais for Boys and Girls'' (1939).〔 ''Twentieth century authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature'', edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft; (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950 (p.1393-94)〕 In the profile in ''Twentieth Century Authors'', Thayer was described as "an atheist, an anarchist-in philosophy a Pyrrhonean- and regrets the legitimacy of his birth."〔 He listed his hobbies as painting, fencing, and book collecting.〔 Towards the end of his life, Thayer had championed increasingly idiosyncratic ideas, such as a Flat Earth and opposition to the fluoridation of water supplies. The ''Fortean Society Magazine'' (also called ''Doubt'') was published regularly until Thayer's death in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1959, aged 57, when the society and magazine came to an end. The magazine and society are not connected to the present-day magazine ''Fortean Times''. Writers Paul and Ron Willis, publishers of ''Anubis'', acquired most of the original Fortean Society material and revived the Society as the International Fortean Organization (INFO) in the early 1960s. INFO went on to incorporate in 1965, publish a widely respected magazine, ''The INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown'', for more than 35 years and created the world's first, and most prestigious, conference dedicated to the work and spirit of Charles Fort, the annual FortFest which continues to this day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiffany Thayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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