James Russell Couch was born on June 10, 1929 in Alvarado, TX. He grew up on a farm and participated in 4-H extracurricular activities in school which sparked his interest in agriculture. He attended John Tarleton Agricultural College for his freshman and sophomore years of college from 1928-1929. He transferred in 1920 to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas [TAMC] and finished his B.S. Degree in Agriculture in June 1931. James Russell Couch was employed at the Texas Agricultural and Experiment Station in September 1931 as an assistant poultry husbandman. He continued with his education through TAMC and received a M.S. in chemistry in June 1941.

In June 12, 1941, James Russell Couch was enlisted into active duty as a First Lieutenant in the Infantry in the Organized Reserve Corps. He was assigned to the Military Training Division of the 5 thService Command from 1941-1945 and was a military instructor for infantry units and officers.

In 1946, James Russell Couch went back to school at the University of Wisconsin and earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Poultry Nutrition in August 1948. He was hired at TAMC and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station [TAEX] as a Professor of Poultry Husbandry and Biochemistry & Nutrition in September 0f 1948. He taught at Texas A&M [TAMC] for 26 years and retired in 1974. He died on January 23, 1991, leaving his wife, Velma Couch, and two sons.

*extra biographical information and photographs found in “Remstar Clippings Biographial file: Couch, James Russell” found at Cushing Memorial Libraries and Archives.

Ava Johnson Cox grew up in the Hill Country along with her first cousin President Lyndon B. Johnson. She taught school in various towns around the Hill Country area as well as recounting stories of early ranch life in this remote area. Ava also hosted pioneer presentations at the LBJ National Historical Park.

Roland O’ Dell Cox (1901-1978) entered Texas A&M in 1921 and graduated in 1925. He was employed at Lone Star Gas Company for 42 years and retired in 1966. After retirement from Lone Star Gas, Cox went on to earn a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in 1974.

Dr. Roy Craig was the chief field investigator for the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, directed by Dr. Edward U. Condon, published in 1965. Dr. Craig attended Fort Lewis College, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, and California Institute of Technology before receiving a Ph. D. in physical chemistry from Iowa State University. He served in the U. S. Army in World War II. After working in manufacturing nuclear weapons, teaching physical science at the university level, and technical and environmental consulting, he now raises llamas on the historic La Boca Ranch in Colorado.

Charles Judson Crane was born in Texas on April 30, 1852. He was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy in 1872 and graduated in 1877. Colonel C. J. Crane was a man of great accomplishments, both in the U.S. Army and later as Corps Commandant at the College of A&M. He served as Commandant and Professor of Military Science and Tactics from January 1881 to November 1883. His extensive military history included the command of troops during the Spanish American War in Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. He later returned to A&M in 1917 to serve as Commandant once again.

Charles P. Crawford, lawyer, Confederate officer; son of Joel Crawford. Charles P. Crawford served in the Confederate Army and entered the service of the State of Georgia on July 6, 1861, in Company A Battalion 11 as a fourth sergeant. He was promoted to the rank of Captain of Company B Battalion 11 on April 16, 1862.

On January 8, 1855, Crawford married his first wife, Martha "Mattie" Williamson, the daughter of Capt. W. T. Williamson of Milledgeville. She was born at McIntosh Reserve, Coweta County, GA on January 8, 1836. On May 4, 1880, Crawford married again to Anna Ripley Orme, the daughter of Richard M. Orme publisher of the Southern Recorder & Milledgeville Mayor.

Captain Crawford died at his home on Liberty Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, January 1900. According to the news article "Captain Crawford was one of the best-posted lawyers of this section, and leaves a wife, one son and three daughters and hosts of friends all over the state to mourn his death."

Dr. Charles W. Crawford graduated from TAMC in Mechanical Engineering in 1919. He taught mechanical engineering as a Professor at TAMU for many years and was the Dean of Engineering in the 1950’s. He is a well-regarded member of TAMU’s faculty and had Charles W. Crawford Improvement fund dedicated in his honor.

George Walker Crawford was the only Whig governor of Georgia from 1843-1847. Crawford was a Representative from Georgia; born in Columbia Country, GA on December 22, 1798. He graduated from Princeton College in 1820; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Augusta, GA. He became attorney general of the State from 1827-1831; served as a member of the State House of Representatives (1837-1842); elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard W. Habersham and served from January 7, 1843, to March 3, 1843. Crawford was appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Taylor and served from March 8, 1849, to July 23, 1850. He presided over the State secession convention in 1861.

Crawford died in his estate, "Bel Air," near Augusta, GA on July 27, 1872, and is buried in Summerville Cemetery.

Bio info from Len G. Cleveland's Ph. D. dissertation, "George W. Crawford of Georgia, 1798-1872" listed on the Biographical Directory of the US Congress website: http://bioguide.congress.gov/

Joel Crawford, a U.S. Congressman, 1817-1821 is the brother of George Walker Crawford. He served as Representative from Georgia; born in Columbia County, GA on June 15, 1783; completed preparatory studies; studied law at the Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sparta in 1808; moved to Milledgeville, GA in 1811; served in the war against the Creek Indians as second lieutenant and aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Floyd in 1813 and 1814; resumed the practice of law in Milledgeville; member of the State house of representatives 1814-1817; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress ( March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); returned to Sparta, Hancock County, in 1828; member of the State senate in 1827 and 1828; appointed a commissioner to run the boundary line between Alabama and Georgia in 1826; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1828 and 1831; delegate to the International Improvement Convention in 1831; elected in 1837 a State commissioner to locate and construct the Western & Atlantic Railroad; died near Blakely, Early County, GA, April 5, 1858; interment in the family burying ground on his plantation in Early County, GA.

Joel Crawford was a slaveholder of over 100 slaves in Hancock County, Georgia.

Biography information available via the Biographical Directory of the US Congress website: http://bioguide.congress.gov/

Mary Crawford is a fanfiction writer who has written fanfic for Star Trek: The Original Series, Sherlock Holmes, _The Real Ghostbusters, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,_Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Fritz Leiber's _Lankhmar_series. She has also made several fanvids. In addition, she maintains Delphi, an online fanfic archive devoted to Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Bill (Allen Billy) Crider was born July 28, 1941, in Mexia, Texas. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963, a Master's degree from North Texas State University in 1966, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. Crider taught in high school for two years, followed by college teaching at Howard Payne University. From 1983 forward, he taught at Alvin Community College, where he chaired the English Department.

Crider is a prolific writer who writes in a variety of genres, including mysteries, westerns, horror, and young adult novels. He was best known for his mystery novels, particularly the "Sheriff Dan Rhodes" series. Crider is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers League, and the Western Writers of America. He has been awarded the "Anthony Award" for best first novel (Too Late to Die), and the "Golden Duck Award" for best the best juvenile science fiction novel of 1998 (Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror).

Bill Crider passed away on February 12, 2018, at his home in Alvin, TX, from cancer.

Charles Criner was born and raised in Athens, Texas on November 27, 1945. In 1964 he attended Texas Southern University and studied art under the guidance of the renowned late artist, Dr. John Biggers. While in college Charles supported himself by working as a sign painter, graphic artist, and billboard illustrator. After graduating in 1968 with a BA in Art Education, he worked for NASA, producing drawings for Apollo 11. Two years later he worked as the advertising art director at the Houston Post that was interrupted for a two-year stint in the Army. He returned to the Houston Post after his service until the Post folded. He started his own business and was lured away to create advertising art for the Houston Chronicle.

Criner is noted for his cartoons including the Johnny Jones series created while in the Army and later adapted for The Houston Post, The Job Crowd, The Dogs and a few others. He also collaborated with his longtime friend, newspaper columnist and sportswriter William Henry Hygh on the Johnny Jones cartoon carried in The Houston Post with Hygh providing the narrative for Criner's art. Mr. Criner's art, ads, and cartoons have been featured in Ebony Magazine, Houston Business Journal, the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and in advertising for the Houston Oilers. His works are owned by museums and individual collections throughout the US. He currently teaches at Houston Community College and is the Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Printing History in Houston.

Rita Joan Crocker, daughter of Mason and Florabel Crocker, was born in Newton, Kansas on October 30, 1931, and moved to Brady, Texas with her parents in 1941. She began school in Newton, Kansas and then attended school in Texas after father sold his ranch in Kansas and bought a ranch in Texas. Her father served as Republican county chairman in McCulloch County for an undetermined time that included 1963. She graduated from Hockaday School in Dallas in 1949. After attending Wellesley College, she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in Spanish and minored in government and history. One has to wonder if even then she had an idea that she would spend so much of her time and effort on politics and history.

In 1952 Rita Joan Crocker married Richard Daniel Bass of Fort Worth at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brady. The couple met while they were students at the University of Texas. They had four children, two sons, and twin daughters. This first marriage ended in divorce in 1974. On May 5, 1975, she married William P. Clements, Jr. who was then Deputy Secretary of Defense.

Rita’s long and active political career before she married William P. Clements Jr. As well as the major role she played in each of his three campaigns for Governor of Texas as well as in his leadership role as Governor of Texas 1979-1983 and 1987-1991 is documented in her papers. Her political activities began in the fall of 1952 while she was a junior at the University of Texas when she rang doorbells to seek support for Dwight Eisenhower who was seeking re-election as President of the United States. She remained active at least through the end of William P. Clements's second term as Governor in 1991.

During the late 1950s, she served as a precinct chairman in Dallas. Beginning in 1962 she was a delegate to every Texas Republican State Convention until at least 1975. In 1963 she was named National Chairman of Campaign Activities for the National Federation of Republican Women and held that position for a few years. She co-chaired the Texas Goldwater for President Committee in 1964 and also served as door-to-door canvas chairman for the Republican National Committee. She was also an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1964 and again in 1972. In 1968 she served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention. The Texas State Republican Committee named her to its Executive Committee in 1971 and in 1973. In 1971 Rita was also appointed to the Finance Committee of the Republican National Committee. She was chosen Texas National Committeewoman in 1973 and served until 1975.

Mrs. Clements also had numerous other public interests including historical preservation, improvement of education, providing training for and employment of women, and the promotion of tourism in Texas. Her private interests included her family, tennis, golf, skiing, and the arts.

Her most important historic preservation project was the restoration of the 1857 Texas Governor’s Mansion, and there is a considerable amount of information in her papers on this major effort. She was deeply involved in research about what changes had been made to the house over time, in the raising of funds to supplement the one million dollars the Texas Legislature appropriated toward the restoration project, in monitoring the progress of the restoration, and in acquiring the appropriate furniture to fill the house when the restoration was completed. The fundraising was done through the Friends of the Governor’s Mansion which Mrs. Clements helped establish.

Mrs. Clements was also involved in the celebration of the centennial of the Texas Capitol building and in the early stages of the planning for the total restoration of that building and the construction of the underground expansion of that building to preserve both the interior and exterior integrity of this historic structure. Thus one can say that Mrs. Clements was involved in varying degrees in the restoration of what may well be the two most important state-owned buildings in Texas.

The Main Street Program to restore the historic downtown areas of small to medium-sized cities was inaugurated while Governor Clements was in office. This was a program in which communities competed for grant funds to assist with the restoration of their downtown areas. Each year new cities were selected based upon competitive applications for grants to help fund the cost program administrators. Business owners in the selected cities restored their buildings. Mrs. Clements also played a significant role in overseeing that program by helping to promote the concept of historical preservation and by visiting each of the cities chosen for the program. She participated in each annual Main Street Tour and spoke briefly at each of the newly chosen cities.

Throughout both of Governor Clements’ two terms in office, Mrs. Clements was in demand as a speaker at a wide variety of functions including Republican and other types of women’s organizations, educational groups or activities, tourism events and conferences, drug prevention conferences and events, men’s professional organizations as well as women’s auxiliary groups, building openings, historical marker dedications and other historical events, and many Republican party groups.. She typically spoke about those topics that were of particular importance to Texas at the time or to her own special interests. Thus she spoke often of historical preservation (especially of the Governor’s Mansion), education, voluntarism, various women’s issues, women in politics, the changing role of women, the Texas economy, and the drug problem. During each of her two terms as First Lady of Texas, Mrs. Clements spoke on over 200 occasions. For most of her speeches, there are full texts, but on some occasions, she spoke from an outline or from brief notes. Most speeches were prepared to be particularly relevant to the audience she was addressing rather than being the same speech on a single topic given to every group. Copies of most of her speeches are included in her papers.

Between 1969 and 2000 Mrs. Clements served actively on over a dozen local, state, and national boards, committees, and task-forces that included the Center for Human Nutrition at Southern Methodist University, Crystal Charity Ball, Dallas County Heritage Society, Dallas Heritage Society, Dallas Historical Society, Dallas Woman’s Club, Junior League, Junior League of Dallas, President’s Task Force on International Broadcasting, St. Michaels and All Angels Church, State Department Fine Arts Committee, Texas State Aquarium, White House Endowment Fund, and Willis Tate Distinguished Lecture Series at Southern Methodist University. She also served between 1970 and 1999 as a board member and a member of several committees of the Hockaday School which she and both of her daughters attended.

A John W. Campbell nominee for best new writer, Scott A. Cupp's is a promising short-story writer. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The New Frontier, Razored Saddles, Freak Show, Andrew Vachss' Underground, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, 100 Great Detectives, The Louis L'amour Companion, Wild West Show!, The West That Was and other diverse venues.

Edward Benjamin Cushing was born in Houston, Texas on November 22, 1862. He was an active member of the Eagle Fire Company No. 7 before attending TAMC.

Cushing married Florence Abbey Powers on February 18, 1888. He graduated with honors in civil engineering at Texas A&M College (TAMC) in 1889. After graduating TAMC, Cushing worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Houston as an axman and rodman, later becoming the assistant General Manager and Engineer in 1912. He fought in WWI as an officer inthe 17 thEngineers, American Expeditionary Force, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre.

Cushing became President of the Texas A&M Board of Directors in 1912 and pushed to keep Texas A&M College open despite deficits and the destruction of Old Main, among other losses to the campus. He guaranteed Texas A&M notes with his personal funds, in order to keep the school open and prevent its merging with the University of Texas - Austin. Cushing became a Federal bank examiner in 1919 and died on February 17, 1924.

The first official free-standing library at Texas A&M, built in 1930, was dedicated to Cushing and named for him.

Chester Cuthbert was a noted and active SF fan in Winnipeg, where his house was often the center of fannish gatherings and activities. As a young man, he wrote two science fiction stories that were both published in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories in 1934, and he had an additional story published in Return to Wonder in 1969. His SF book collection was large and well-known, and in 2007 he donated its 60,000 volumes to the University of Alberta.

Ellen Datlow was born in New York City in 1949 and has enjoyed a long and storied career as a science fiction, horror and fantasy editor and anthologist. She was the fiction editor for Omni Magazine from 1981-1998 and edited Sci Fiction from 2000-2005. She has edited a large number of anthology series, including, among others, Blood, Fairy Tales Anthologies, Fairy Tales Retold, Mythic Fiction, Omni Science Fiction, The Best Horror of the Year, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She has edited a great many single anthologies as well and has written numerous essays and reviews. Ellen Datlow won the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, as well as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2014. She has been nominated for many other professional awards as well.

Born in Alabama in 1944 to a middle class family, Davis was the oldest of three children. She attended the segregated schools of Alabama until the age of 15, when she received a scholarship from the American Friends Service Committee to attend Elizabeth Irwin High School, a progressive private school in New York City.

After graduating from high school Davis won a scholarship to Brandeis University, where she majored in French literature. She spent her junior year (1962) at the Sorbonne in Paris, witnessed firsthand the Algerian conflict being waged in the streets there, and attended the Communist Youth Festival in Helsinki which had a significant impact on her political development. In 1965 she graduated from Brandeis with honors and went to Frankfurt, Germany to study philosophy at Goethe University. At the University she continued her activism and joined a socialist student group opposed to the war in Vietnam. In her autobiography, Davis notes that she spent time in East Germany, which served to deepen her commitment to socialism.

Upon her return to the U.S. Davis joined the Black liberation movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War in San Diego and Los Angeles.

According to her autobiography, Davis first became aware of the Soledad Brothers after reading a February 1970 article in the Los Angeles Times. She accepted the co-chair of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee and as a result of her activities and subsequent visits to Soledad Prison, Davis befriended the families of the Soledad Brothers and corresponded with the three men.

On August 3, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson's seventeen year old brother, tried to assist James McClain, on trial for an alleged attempt to stab an officer, escape from the courthouse. During the escape attempt the judge and Jackson were killed in a shootout with the police; one juror and the district attorney were wounded. The guns used in the kidnapping were allegedly traced to Davis, implicating her in the escape attempt. A California warrant was issued for Davis' arrest in which she was charged as an accomplice to murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. She fled Los Angeles and evaded arrest by seeking refuge in several places including New York City. A federal fugitive warrant was subsequently issued and she was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ten most wanted list.

Two months later Davis was captured in New York City. While awaiting trial, and after a few joint court appearances, Davis separated her case from Magee's and their cases were tried separately. Magee wanted his trial held in a federal court while Davis wanted her trial held in California's state court. Davis' trial was moved from Marin County, a primarily white upper middle class community to San Jose, California which was an ethnically and racially more diverse city, in an effort to secure a fair trial with a less biased jury.

Almost immediately a groundswell of support developed in favor of Davis' release. Davis in particular, received widespread national and international support from the black community, liberals and the progressive left. The Communist Party mounted a major political campaign and held rallies in the United States and abroad, published articles, pamphlets and posters, issued petitions, distributed postcards, and requested that the public mail cards and letters on Davis' behalf.

After a trial by jury, consisting of eleven whites and one Latino, Davis was acquitted of all charges. Following her acquittal Davis taught at San Francisco State University for several years. From 1973 until the early 1990s she served on the board of the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, an organization she helped found with Charlene Mitchell. In the Fall of 1995, she was appointed to the University of California at Santa Cruz Presidential Chair and became a consultant to the Ph.D program at UCSC where she continues to teach. Davis has written several books on gender and class issues, the prison system and its impact on minority populations, and is a major figure in the orthodox Communist Party.

According to the biographical information contained within the manuscript, the parents of Thomas W. Davis, III lived in Brentwood, Tennessee. Davis had one brother named W. A. Davis.

Thomas Davis graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1935. He graduated from the Academy on June 12, 1939, and received a second lieutenant's commission in the Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) of the U.S. Army. While a student at West Point, Davis met Betty McDonnell of Mill Neck, Long Island. They became engaged in 1939 and married on February 24, 1940. The newlyweds lived with her parents for the first four months of the marriage while Davis was assigned to the 62nd CAC (AA) at Fort Totten, Bayside, Long Island. At the urging of his brother and without foreknowledge of the impending war, Davis volunteered for duty in the Philippines. The cost of living was more amenable to a second lieutenant's pay and his brother advised Davis that the duty was easier than most. Davis and his wife arrived in Manila on July 20, 1940, for his two-year tour of duty with the 59th Coast Artillery (CA). During the difficult trip to their new home, the couple discovered that Betty was pregnant with their first child. Their daughter, Kathleen Chilton Davis, was born on February 6, 1941. The Davis family spent the first three months of his Philippine tour of duty at Fort Hughes, one of the three isolated islands located in the entrance to Manila Bay. In November 1940, Davis was reassigned to Corregidor Island. Betty and baby Kathy left for Long Island on May 1, 1941, after the Army ordered that all Army dependents evacuate the Philippine Islands. Davis was appointed Commander of Battery H (also known as Battery Geary) of the 59th CA in January 1942. On May 6, 1942, he was taken prisoner when Corregidor fell to the Japanese. While a prisoner of war, Davis was detained in Japanese prison camps in the Philippines and Japan including the Cabanatuan Camp and the Kosaka Camp. He was held as a prisoner of war until the war ended in August 1945. Davis arrived back in the United States in October 1945. Davis' marriage was not strong enough to withstand the long separation. Betty divorced him on August 10, 1946.

Robert Lewis Dawson joined the faculty at the Department of French and Italian, the University of Texas at Austin, in 1975 and remained there to his death. At the same time, he collected some French 15,000 books and 6,000 manuscripts, most from the long 18th century. These are in the Dawson French Collection at Cushing Library.

Lester Del Rey (1915-1993) was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota in 1915. He published his first short story (under the name 'Lester Del Rey') in Astounding in 1938, "The Faithful", at the dawn of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. This was the beginning of Del Rey's career as one of the genre's most influential figures. His early career as a writer was marked by a number of short stories published in many of the pulps of the era, and Del Rey launched his novelist's career with the 1952 publication of Rocket Jockey.

Del Rey's influence as an editor and publisher was even greater than his literary legacy. This phase of his career started in 1946 when he became a reader and the office manager at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. At various points in his career, he was an editor at Space Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures, Rocket Stories, and Worlds of Fantasy (as well as a book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction). From 1975-1988 Del Rey was the Fantasy editor at Ballantine Books and was vice-president of Ballantine from 1988-1993. In 1977 Del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn Del Rey established Del Rey Books as an imprint of Ballantine, specializing in science fiction and fantasy; the imprint was the publisher for authors such as Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, Alan Dean Foster, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Turtledove, Robert Heinlein, Elizabeth Moon, and many others.

Del Rey received a number of award nominations during his life. He won the 1972 Skylark Award (Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction), as well as the 1985 Balrog Special Award. He was made a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1991.

Lester Del Rey died on May 10, 1993.

Samuel R. Delany (1942- ) is an award-winning science fiction writer and literary critic. Delany has received multiple Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Pilgrim Award which recognizes outstanding scholarship in science fiction studies and the William Whitehead Memorial Award which recognizes a lifetime's contribution to Lesbian and Gay Literature. Delany's best-known novels include Babel-17 (1966), Empire Star (1966), Nova (1968), The Einstein Intersection (1967), Dhalgren (1975), and the Return to Nevèrÿon series (1979-1987). He is also the author of books of criticism, interviews, essays, and several autobiographical accounts, including the critically-acclaimed The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Since January of 2001, Delany has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

A.M. Dellamonica

Alyxandra Margaret (Alyx) Dellamonica was born on February 25, 1968, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A creative person from her earliest years, as a child and a young woman, Dellamonica did a great deal of work in local and community theater before she embarked on her writing career in earnest. She published her first short story, "Lucre's Egg" in the Autumn 1994 issue of Crank! Magazine. in 1995 she attended the storied Clarion West science fiction writers workshop in Seattle, WA, and began writing numerous short stories. (Some were mysteries written under the name 'Ashley Craft'.) She has published over 40 stories to date in numerous periodicals and anthologies, along with numerous essays and book reviews.

In 2009 Dellamonica published her first novel: Indigo Springs, an intense fantasy chronicling the fallout from the introduction of magical substance first into a small Oregon town, and then into the larger world. The novel won the 2010 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. It was followed by a sequel, Blue Magic, in 2012. In 2014 Dellamonica embarked on a new series, which takes place on the island-dotted oceanic world of Stormwrack. The three novels in the series, Child of A Hidden Sea(2014), A Daughter of No Nation(2015), and The Nature of A Pirate(2016) tell the story of Sophie Hansa, a marine biologist from San Francisco who is swept into Stormwrack and its complicated variety of cultures and nations and the political and religious intrigues that drive them. The middle work won the 2016 Prix Aurora for Best English Novel. She also wrote several stories set in the same universe, "Among The Silvering Herd" (2012), "The Ugly Woman of Castello di Putti" (2014), and "The Glass Galago" (2016).

Under the pseudonym L.X. Beckett, Dellamonica has written a near-future novel Gamechanger, set on an Earth emerging from a long period of environmental collapse and political unrest into a brighter, virtual reality-driven collective future (the "Bounceback"). Gamechanger was a finalist for the 2020 Sunburst Award, and was followed by a sequel, Dealbreaker, in 2021. Beckett has also published two novellas set in the Bounceback universe: "Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" (2018), a finalist for the 2019 Theodore Sturgeon Award for Best Short Science Fiction; and "The Immolation of Kev Magee" (2020). Most recently as Beckett, she has written the 2022 story "Salvage Blossom".

Dellamonica had a James Bond story, "Through Your Eyes Only", published in the anthology Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond(ChiZine, November 2015). She was also the co-editor of Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. She has published a number of other works of short fiction, including "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic" (2005), which was nominated for the 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Best Short Form; "The Town on Blighted Sea" (2007); "The Color of Paradox" (2014); "The Boy Who Would Not be Enchanted" (2016); and (as Beckett) "The HazMat Sisters" (2021), nominated for the 2022 Asimov's Readers Award for Best Novelette. As Beckett, she also writes poetry: her 2021 poem "What The Time Travellers Saw" was nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem.

Dellamonica is married to author Kelly Robson, and lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

August Derleth's career started at age 15 with the sale of a story to Weird Tales. He was a prolific and varied writer. During his career, he published over 100 novels, short stories, poetry volumes, biographies, histories, articles, and essays. He wrote historical fiction novels as well as poetry, juvenile fiction, mysteries, and science fiction/fantasy tales. Derleth himself was an avid reader; his personal library numbered approximately 12,000 volumes. He was also a nature enthusiast; his love for nature is apparent in many of his works. Derleth collected American commemorative stamps and comics; he reputedly had the world's largest collection of comics.

August Derleth began Arkham House Publishing to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Ironically, the two never met. While Derleth was young, he and Lovecraft began corresponding with one another. They typically exchanged letters several times a month until Lovecraft's death.

• February 2, 1904: born in Sauk City, WI to William Julius and Rose Louise Derleth
• 1930: University of Wisconsin, B.A.
• 1930-1931: associate editor, Fawcett Publications, Milwaukee
• 1931-1971: free-lance write
• 1934-1943: contributing editor, Outdoors Magazine
• 1937-1943: served as director, Sauk City Board of Education
• 1938: winner of Guggenheim Fellowship (sponsored by Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, and Helen Constance White)
• 1939-1943: special lecturer in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin
• 1939-1971: publisher, Arkham House
• 1941-1971: literary editor and weekly columnist (1961-1971) for the Capital Times
• 1953: married Sandra Evelyn Winters (two children, April Rose and Walden William)
• 1958: 1st prize winner in Scholastic Magazine's short story contest for "The Tail of the Dog"
• 1959: divorced from Sandra Evelyn Winters Derleth
• 1966: winner, Governor's Award. for distinguished service to the creative arts for Return to Walden West
• July 4, 1971: died

Henry Clay Dethloff (August 10, 1934) received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956, his M.A. from Northwestern State College in 1960, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1964. Dethloff joined the faculty of the History Department at Texas A & M University in 1969 and served as departmental chair from 1980 to 1985.

Emily P. Devenport Hogan is a science fiction writer based in Arizona, married to fellow writer Ernest Hogan. Devenport's publishing debut was in 1987, with her short story "Shade and the Elephant Man", published in Aboriginal Science Fiction in May 1987. The story was the basis of Devenport's first novel, Shade (1991), whose eponymous title character is a runaway orphan and psychic enmeshed in intrigue in a decadent alien city. It was followed by a sequel in 1993, Larissa.

Devenport's first stand-alone novel, Scorpianne was published in 1994, and told the story of Lucy, a prostitute who escapes a murder attempt on Earth and finds herself on Mars trying to avoid the ruthless assassin Scorpianne. Her two-book space operas EggHeads (1994) and GodHeads (1996) were separated in publication time by 1997's The Kronos Connection. Kronos concerns a group of psychically gifted children struggling against the mysterious Three - a trio of powerful telepathic adults who abuse the children and seek to use them for their own evil ends.

Under the pseudonym "Lee Hogan", Devenport published in 2000 the novel Broken Time, which was nominated for the 2001 Philip K. Dick Award. The novel concerns heroine Siggy Lindquist and her struggles against aliens and inmates at the offworld Institute for the Criminally Insane. Another two-book space opera, the Belarus series (Belarus in 2002, and Enemies in 2003) was published under the name "Lee Hogan". Devenport's most recent novels have been the two-volume "Medusa Cycle" - set in the far future aboard a socially stratified generation ship, the series consists of Medusa Uploaded (2018) and Medusa in the Graveyard (2019).

Devenport has written a number of short stories, including 1988's "Cat Scratch", which won Aboriginal Science Fiction's Boomerang Award for Best Story, that have been published in periodicals including Aboriginal, Critical Mass, Asimov's Science Fiction, Uncanny, and Clarkesworld.

Born in Wilmington Beach, North Carolina to Brownrigg Hefferron Dewey and Esther Hashagen, B. H. Dewey, Jr. graduate from Texas A&M University and from the University of Texas Law School. He practiced law in Brazos county beginning in 1941, served 41 months in World War II, represented Bryan in the Texas Legislature from 1953-1962 and became Brazos County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2 in 1965.

Philip K. Dick (1928-12-16-1982-03-02) is one of the major voices of American 20th-century science fiction. Born in Chicago, Dick spent most of his life in California. Like so many giants of the genre, Dick began his career in the pulp magazine market - his first SF stories appeared in Planet Stories in 1952, and in 1955 he published his first novel, Solar Lottery as one-half of an Ace paperback double. (Although Solar Lottery was Dick's first published SF novel, he wrote several earlier in his life that was published later, including The Cosmic Puppets, Vulcan's Hammer, and Dr. Futurity.

Whether early or late in Dick's career, his works are marked by particular themes such as metaphysical philosophy, alternate worlds and realities, shifts in identity and consciousness, and nations or worlds ruled by authoritarian governments or all-powerful corporations. Dick himself once declared as a major and recurring theme of his to be the question, "What constitutes the authentic human being?"

Though reasonably well-known in his early career, Dick achieved major fame in 1963 when his 1961 novel The Man In The High Castle won the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book is a chilling dystopia set in the United States after the Axis Powers have won World War II, and is regarded as one of the greatest alternate history stories yet written. Over the next two decades, Dick produced a number of other famous novels, including Martian Time-Slip (1962), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965, Nebula Award nominee), Counter-Clock World (1967), Ubik (1969), Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1970, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee), A Scanner Darkly (1977, BSFA Winner), and Radio Free Albemuth (1985).

Perhaps Dick's most famous novel is the post-apocalyptic Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (1968), which tells the story of bounty hunter Rick Deckard. Deckard's job is to hunt down and 'retire' escaped androids, and the novel explores Deckard's exploration of what it means to be truly human. The book was adapted into the 1982 film Blade Runner.

In 1974, Dick experienced a number of visions, hallucinations, and mystical encounters, which affected his thought and fiction for the rest of his life. He began keeping a journal of his opinions about the origins of these experiences, which later became known as the Exegesis. From 1978-1981 Dick published a trilogy of novels relating to these mystical events: VALIS (1978, VALIS referring to Dick's vision of the entity that he believed contacted him, or as he termed it, "Vast Active Living Intelligence System"), The Divine Invasion (1980), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1981).

Dick died in March 1982 after suffering several strokes.

Arthur Dietrich was a dairy farmer and wrote numerous papers, articles, and books about dairy farming from 1968 to 1981 in Dallas, TX. He married Luise Callet on September 3, 1924. They had several children and ran Arthur Dietrich Farms in Dallas. Dietrich received numerous farming awards including the American Jersey Cattle Club Distinguished Service Award in 1972.

Lawrence S. Dillon was born in Reading, PA in 1910. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1933. For a time, Lawrence S. Dillon worked as a zoologist at the Reading Museum in Reading, PA. Lawrence S. Dillon then married in January 1932 and had a daughter. He became a Biology instructor at Texas A&M in 1948 and pursued his master’s and PhD at Texas A&M while teaching undergraduate biology. His Biological career focused on Progressive Evolution Theory. He published numerous articles related to his field and received numerous awards during his lifetime in Biological Science. He was elected Fellow member in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AIBS, and Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He taught at Texas A&M from 1948 until his retirement in 1976.