Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Eagle Scout, a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, a US Army veteran (1LT-RA 1970-72), a licensed engineer, a licensed attorney, a father, a grandmother and a lesbian wife. She is the first, out, transgender judge in the nation. Now having lived almost sixty percent of her life as the woman she always felt herself to be, Phyllis remains on the cutting edge of LGBTI and especially transgender legal and political issues. When the “gay” community was still ignoring or marginalizing the transgender community in the early 1990s, Phyllis began the national transgender legal and political movement (thus she is known as being the Grandmother of the national transgender legal and political movement) with the six annual transgender law conferences (ICTLEP) and their grassroots training. Attorney Frye is one of the Task Force’s 1995 “Creator of Change” award winners. In 1999 she was given the International Foundation for Gender Education’s “Virginia Prince Lifetime Achievement” award. In 2001 she was given the National LGBT Bar Association’s (a.k.a. Lavender Law’s) highest honor, the “Dan Bradley Award.” She was honored beginning in 2009 by Texas A&M University with an annual “Advocacy Award” given in her name. In 2013 the Houston Transgender Unity Committee gave her its “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2015 she was given the National Center for Transgender Equality’s “Julie Johnson Founders Award.” That same year, Phyllis was featured on the front page (above the fold) of the Sunday Edition, August 30, New York Times, and she also became a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. In 2010, Phyllis was sworn-in as the first, out, transgender judge in the nation, as a City of Houston Associate Municipal Judge. She retains her senior partnership with Frye, Oaks, Benavidez & O’Neil, PLLC (at www.liberatinglaw.com) which is an out LGBTI-and-straight-allies law firm. While the members of the firm practice law in a variety of areas, Phyllis devotes her practice exclusively to taking transgender clients -- both adults and minors -- through the Texas courts to change the clients’ names and genders on their legal documents.

Peter M. McIntyre attended the University of Chicago culminating in 1973 with his Ph. D. He went on to do experiments with colliding beams at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland until 1975 when joined Havard University as an Assistant Professor. He would continue is work at both CERN and Fermilab through the late 1970s that would lead to the discorvery of weak bosons at CERN in 1982. In 1980 Dr. McIntyer joined the faculty at Texas A&M as an Associate Professor and continued his work in the field of high energy particle physics and participated in the construction and operation of the Collider Detctor at Fermilab. Dr. McIntyre was amoung the first to propose the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider and was a co-author of the Texas SSC site proposal

John Robert Anthony was born in Longview, TX on June 12, 1889. Anthony earned a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1916, an L.L.B. in 1921 and an M.A. in 1928.

Anthony was head of the English Department at West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio 1913-1915, then Assistant Professor of English at Texas Christian University 1916-1918. Anthony later joined the legal staff of Humble Oil and Refining Company in Houston, TX January 1929. Following his retirement from Humble Oil in 1954, Anthony served as Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law 1955-1957. Anthony played an active part in the nine-year campaign to revise the antiquated Texas probate statutes. In recognition of his invaluable work contributions toward revising the Texas Probate Code, the Council of the Section on Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law honored him at the annual Texas Bar Association Convention in Houston on July 4, 1972.

Anthony died of cancer on July 26, 1977, at the age of 88.

George Armstrong was born on February 22, 1884, in St. Louis, MI. In 1908 he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in the regular army for eighteen years and in the Reserves for two, rising to the rank of major in the Military Police. For most of his army service during the period of this correspondence with Nell Floss Steel, later his wife, Nell Steel Armstrong, he served with a Recruit Depot in the U.S. Army General Services Infantry, training recruits.

Initially based in Columbus, OH where he probably met his future wife, Nell Floss Steel, Armstrong was transferred (1913) to the military training camp at Texas City, TX but also fulfilled assignments in Saginaw, MI (1913), St. Louis, MO (1913), and Vera Cruz, Mexico (April 1914). He also received training in El Paso, TX (1914), before returning to Columbus, OH (1915).

During World War I, Armstrong was periodically stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN and Camp Sherman, OH between 1915 - August 1918. He subsequently served in the U.S. Army Infantry, 83rd Division, in France from September ?? to November 1918, inspecting prisoner of war camps.

After World War I, Armstrong was transferred to Cleveland, OH and eventually retired from the army to avoid being reverted to his previous rank of 1st Sergeant. The Armstrongs lived briefly in Grandfield, OK before moving successively to Burkburnett, Graham, Ranger, Breckenridge, Holliday, and Wichita Falls, TX. They finally settled in Baytown to be close to family. In Baytown, Armstrong began a career in the Texas oilfields, working for Texaco for many years before retiring from the company in January 1949. He died in Baytown on April 27, 1964.

Himself a poet and translator of World War I British poets' works, Roger Asselineau led the scholarly world for decades as a champion of scholarly work about the 19th-century American poet, Walt Whitman. Asselineau's interest in American poetry is reputed to have been inspired by his experiences with the French Resistance during World War I, aiding American airmen to escape from occupied France. Asselineau himself only escaped being executed by the Nazis for his work in the French Resistance forces by the American invasion of Paris. Asselineau's life-long appreciation and admiration of American poets' advocation of beliefs in liberty and individuality may have developed during this time.

Asselineau published his first book of poems, Traduit de Moi-Même under the name Robert Maurice in 1949, but other volumes of his mostly free-verse poetry were subsequently published under his own name. As a poet, he had a particularly sensitive ear for the difficulties and complexities, often not at first apparent, in translating Walt Whitman's poetry.

Asselineau was active in Whitman scholarship up until his death on July 8, 2002, in Paris, France. Asselineau's own major work about Whitman was a critical biography, begun as his dissertation at the Sorbonne, L'évolution de Walt Whitman aprés la premiére édition des Feuilles d'herbe, first published in Paris by Didier in 1954, then in a two-volume English translation, The Evolution of Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1960-62), and finally in a slightly expanded edition, again titled The Evolution of Walt Whitman, with a foreword by Ed Folsom, by the University of Iowa Press in 1999.

Asselineau was an original member of the Advisory Editorial Board for The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, which was organized in 1955 to oversee the publication of an authoritative edition of all of Whitman's writings. Long a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, Asselineau attended many conferences and was active in bringing Leaves of Grass to world attention, particularly encouraging translators to send him new editions of the poem. Asselineau was also active on the editorial board of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and wrote many reviews of scholarly works for several journals.

Asselineau was a close friend as well as fellow Whitman scholar to Gay Wilson Allen and became a friend and mentor to all of the major Whitman scholars, biographers, and translators of the twentieth century.

Asselineau was also a noted scholar of the American 19th-century poet Edgar Allan Poe and published many articles and books on other American literary figures including Washington Irving, Crèvecoeur, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and Tennessee Williams. Many of Asselineau's reviews appeared in the journal Etudes Anglaises.

In 1987 Asselineau was made an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America, an honor proposed by Whitman scholar, Jerome Loving, in association with Daniel Hoffman.

Asselineau's wife was named Paule, and he had a daughter named Claire.

Robert I. White is a former attorney who has specialized in federal tax litigation since 1959. After working in private practice in New Orleans from 1958-1959, he began work as a trial attorney in both Houston and Dallas for the Internal Revenue Service, Chief Counsel’s Office. In 1963 he left the IRS and went to work until 1966 for the United States Department of Justice’s Tax Division in Washington, DC.  In 1966 he returned to Texas and joined the Houston firm of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, where he remains a shareholder.

White graduated from Tulane University with a B.B.A in 1953. He received his law degree from the Tulane School of Law in 1958 and obtained an L.L.M. from Southern Methodist University in 1966. In addition, he served for three years in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.

Kelly Ann Robson (1967-) was first inspired to write science fiction in 1983 when, as a young girl she picked up a copy of Asimov's Science Fiction with a story by Connie Willis. She attended the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, where, in January 1988, she first met her future wife and fellow author Alyx Dellamonica. The two were married in 2003 and live in Toronto.

Robson graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.A. in English in 1991. She obtained a Certificate in Multimedia Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2001. Upon graduation from the U of Alberta, Robson held several different jobs, including being a writer, editor, graphic artist, and web designer for ESSA Technologies, a Vancouver-based ecological sciences consulting firm. From 2008-2012 she was a freelance columnist and wine authority for the women's magazine Chatelaine.

In 2015 Robson published a flurry of work, beginning with the short story "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" in the February 2015 issue of Clarkesworld. The story is a disturbing commentary on the ongoing epidemic of violence and murder against women along Highway 16 in Alberta and British Columbia. It was included in the Night Shade Press anthology In The Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post 9/11 World, and was nominated for the 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Released by Tor.com in June 2015 was Robson's novella Water of Versailles, an historical fantasy set in 1738 at the French court of Louis XV. It was nominated for a 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and won the 2016 Prix Aurora for Best English Short Fiction. In the August 2015 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, Robson published the bleak dystopian tale "Two-Year Man", bringing her creative journey that began when she first discovered Asimov's in 1983, full circle. In 2021, Subterranean Press published a collection of Robson's short fiction, entitled Alias Space and Other Stories, which won the 2022 Aurora Award for Best Related Work-English. Among her most recent work is the story "In a Cabin, In a Wood", published in Jonathan Strahan's 2023 anthology The Book of Witches.

Her well-received time travel novella Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach was published by Tor.com in March 2018, was nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and won the 2019 Prix Aurora for Best Short Fiction - English. Her 2017 story "We Who Live In The Heart" was nominated for the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Robson's most recent published work is the novella High Times in the Low Parliament, released by Tor.com in August 2022 and a nominee for both the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 2023 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.

In addition to her science fiction work, Robson has also published a noir story, "Good For Grapes", which was included in the anthology The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (March 2015). Her James Bond story "The Gladiator Lie" was published in the anthology Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond (ChiZine, November 2015). Robson's horror novella "A Human Stain" was released as a Tor.com original in January 2017, and won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.

Robson was nominated for the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

The popular and skilled urban fantasy writer Roxanne Longstreet was born on April 27, 1962, in White Sands, NM, and grew up in West Texas. She graduated with a B.A. in Accounting from Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in 1985. Her first novel, the fantasy Stormriders, based on the Shadow World role-playing game, was published in 1990 (and republished in 1996 under the pseudonym 'Ian Hammell'). She then wrote three horror novels and one thriller between 1993-1996, all under her original name.

After marrying artist Richard Conrad in 1992, Conrad then wrote two mystery-thrillers under the name 'Roxanne Conrad': Copper Moon (1997) and Bridge of Shadows (1998). In 2002, the thriller Exile, TX was also published under her married name.

2003 saw the debut of Conrad's writing career under her most famous pen name, 'Rachel Caine'. She published Ill Wind, the first of her popular Weather Warden series published by Roc from 2003-2011. The urban fantasy series, which ran in two series across 14 novels and several short stories, takes place on an Earth where a group of individuals called Wardens can control different elemental forces and use that power to protect humanity from natural disasters. The series' main character, Joanne Baldwin, is a Weather Warden, and the main series involves her adventures. An offshoot series, Outcast Season, concerns an outcast Djinn who seeks safety and a new life amongst the Wardens. In 2015, Caine launched a Kickstarter to fund a new novel in the series, entitled Red Hot Rain, but the book was unfinished due to Caine's health complications and her 2020 death.

Other series followed. In 2005-2006, Caine produced the two-book Red Letter Days series, an urban fantasy/paranormal romance about two female detectives who find themselves obliged to start taking cases from a supernatural client with their own agenda. From 2011-2013, Caine published three books in her Revivalist series, telling the story of Bryn Davis, a woman murdered by her pharmaceutical corporate overlords and revived from death via an experimental drug on which she now relies for continued existence. Her final series for adults was the best-selling Stillhouse Lake series of mysteries, starring Tennessee PI Gwen Proctor and beginning with Stillhouse Lake in 2017. The fifth book in the series, Heartbreak Bay was published posthumously in 2021 and was Caine's last published book.

Caine was no stranger to works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror for young adults. Her popular The Morganville Vampires series ran for 15 books, beginning with Glass Houses in 2006 and ending with the short story "Home" in 2019, was set in the fictional West Texas town in Morganville, a town owned by vampires as a sanctuary and where they live in uneasy tension with humans. The series was adapted as a web series in 2014 and lasted for one season, starring Amber Benson and Robert Picardo.

In 2015, Caine published the first in her YA alternate history/fantasy The Great Library series - Ink and Bone. The series is set in a world where the Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed, and over the succeeding millennia has taken control of the world and the flow of information. Tne protagonists are several young Librarians who band together after discovering the injustice and tyranny behind the Library, and seek to bring it down through revolution. The series has five books, concluding with Sword and Pen in 2019. Caine co-wrote, with Ann Aguirre, another YA series - The Honors, a three-book space opera about a young woman named Zara Cole, who as an "Honor" pilots a living ship called a Leviathan along with her co-pilot Beatriz Teixiera. The first book in the series, Honor Among Thieves (2018) was named to the LITA Excellence in Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable List for 2019. In addition to these series, Caine also wrote a YA standalone, Prince of Shadows (2015), a fantasy take on Romeo and Juliet.

Caine wrote several other standalone works as well, including Line of Sight (2007), a volume in the Athena Force series of novels about graduates of the Athena Academy, an elite school for girls with special talents, as they combat kidnappers, terrorists, and the forces of evil; a Stargate SG-1 media tie-in novel, Sacrifice Moon in 2007 (under the name 'Julie Fortune'), and a number of short stories contained in different science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal romance anthologies.

Rachel Caine lived for much of her life in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband R. "Cat" Conrad. She was diagnosed in 2019 with soft-tissue sarcoma, and died on November 1, 2020. Caine was posthumously awarded the 2021 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to science fiction and fantasy by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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.

Kristen Britain was born in Batavia, New York, and grew up in the Finger Lakes region of the state. She graduated from Ithaca College in 1987 with a degree in film production (and a minor in writing). Following graduation, Britain, inspired by a conversation she had with an National Park Service ranger at Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY,  herself became a ranger. Over the years she worked at Clara Barton National Historic Site, Lowell NHP, Acadia NP, Mammoth Cave NP, Rocky Mountain NP, and Women’s Rights NHP.

In 1992 Britain moved to Maine, and the natural setting of Acadia National Park helped inspire and shape her fantasy writing. DAW published her first novel, Green Rider, in 1998 while Britain was still employed with the NPS. The novel tells the story of young Karigan G'ladheon, a merchant's daughter who, while running away from her home, through fate and circumstance becomes a "Green Rider", an elite messenger in the service of the king of Sacordia. The letters she finds herself delivering catapult her into a high-level political and magical conspiracy. Green Riderwas a finalist for the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award for Best First Novel of 1998 and for the 1998 IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award. It also placed #5 in the 1999 _Locus_Poll Awards for Best First Novel.

The sequel to the novel, First Rider's Call, was released in 2003. Karigan's adventures have continued through several additional novels in the series: The High King's Tomb (2007), Blackveil (2011),  Mirror Sight (2014), Firebrand (2017), and the most recent, Winterlight (2021). Blackveil was nominated for the 2012 David Gemmell Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Britain published a prequel novella, relating an early adventure of Green Rider Laren Mapstone, entitled Spirit of the Wood in 2023.

Britain has also written several pieces of short fiction, including "Avalonia" (2001), "Linked, on the Lake of Souls" (2002), and "Chafing the Bogey Man" (2008), among others. Some of her short fiction was published in the 2018 collection The Dream Gatherer.

She currently resides in Maine.

Lawrence Michael Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1959, though he grew up in Southern California. In 1983, he graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a B.S. in psycholinguistics. This degree was followed up by an M.S. and a Ph.D. in psychology, both from Kansas State University. Schoen put his doctorate to work as a professor, first at New College in Florida, then Lake Forest College in Illinois, and finally Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a decade in academia he worked for 17 years as a director of research and analytics for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia.

In 1992, Schoen applied his background in linguistics to fandom, creating the Klingon Language Institute. The KLI is a nonprofit organization devoted to the study of the Klingon language and culture (from the Star Trek media franchise). The group has members from all over the world, from casual fans to serious linguistic scholars, and publishes a number of works in Klingon, including the Tao Tse Ching, plays of William Shakespeare, the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Wizard of Oz, and The Art of War. (Schoen himself published a Klingon translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.) It also publishes a regular journal, HolQeD, an academic journal utilizing blind peer review, registered with the Library of Congress, and catalogued by the Modern Language Association.

Schoen is highly regarded as an author of science fiction and fantasy, starting with the publication of his first story, "Past Waves", in 1990. Since that, he has written over 10 novels, multiple chapbooks and poems, and many works of short fiction. He won the 2016 Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Service to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Association of American Award, and has been nominated multiple times for the Nebula Award (in 2013 for the novella Barry's Tale, in 2014 for the novella Trial of the Century , in 2015 for the novella Calendrical Regression, in 2016 for his thoughtful and critically acclaimed novel Barsk: The Elephant's Graveyard, in 2018 for the novella Barry's Deal, and in 2019 for the novelette "The Rule of Three"). His 2010 short story "The Moment" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and he was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Both Barsk and its sequel The Moons of Barsk won the Coyotl Award for Best Novel.

Schoen lives with his wife, Valerie, outside Philadelphia.

The Governors Chapter of the Texas State Society Daughters of the American Colonists was organized on October 29, 1977, in College Station, Texas.

Don Kelly was born September 22, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Illinois and attended college for his undergraduate degree at The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the university in 1962. Kelly then joined the United States Air Force and was stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. After serving as an officer for three years, Kelly attended the University of Kansas and received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in 1967. He also studied Urban Studies at The University of Texas and Texas Christian University.
After completing his thorough education, Kelly began serving the public by becoming Assistant City Manager of Victoria, Texas, as well as serving as director of regional services. In 1970, Kelly landed the job as the first Executive Director of South East Texas Regional Planning Commission (SETRPC) where he united the southeastern region of Texas.
While working this job, he also was either president or on the board of over 40 different civic and social organizations. He was appointed staff of the first North Texas Council of Governments and was the only member who attended all 34 meetings. Kelly also served as Chairman of the Beaumont Mayor’s Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities for 15 years, was the founding member of the Triangle AIDS Network, was on the board of the Mental Health Association for 26 years, and served as president of the Southeast Texas Arts Council and the Texas Association of Arts Council. Being a huge, diehard baseball fan, he even had the opportunity to co-host a sports trivia radio program for 17 years alongside Dave Hofferth. Kelly also had the honor of serving as the Olympic Torchbearer for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
After serving the public for over 36 years, Don Kelly retired from SETRPC in 2000. Upon retirement, Kelly traveled around the world and settled down in Houston, Texas where he began to create and donate a variety of different collections. He donated and started the Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture and Fellowship at Texas A&M University which consists of many rare books and materials. Kelly still donates and adds to the collection today.

Texas State Historical Association, Ellen Dorothy Schulz Quillin.

Wikipedia, Ellen Schulz Quillin.

HaithiTrust, Quillin, Ellen Schulz, 1892-1970.

Publications by Ellen Schulz Quillin within Texas A&M University Libraries holdings:

500 Wild Flowers of San Antonio and Vicinity
Quillin, Ellen Schulz. 500 Wild Flowers of San Antonio and Vicinity. San Antonio, Tex.: The author, 1922.

Texas Wild Flowers: A Popular Account of the Common Wild Flowers of Texas
Quillin, Ellen Schulz. Texas Wild Flowers: A Popular Account of the Common Wild Flowers of Texas. Chicago, New York: Laidlaw brothers, 1928.

Texas Cacti: A Popular and Scientific Account of the Cacti Native of Texas
Quillin, Ellen Schulz, and Robert Runyon. Texas Cacti: A Popular and Scientific Account of the Cacti Native of Texas. San Antonio, Tex.: Texas Academy of Science, 1930.

Cactus Culture
Quillin, Ellen Schulz, and Ben Carlton Mead. Cactus Culture. Rev. ed. New York: Orange Judd Pub. Co., 1942.

The Story of the Witte Memorial Museum, 1922-1960
Woolford, Bess Carroll, Ellen Schulz Quillin, and Ben Carlton Mead. The Story of the Witte Memorial Museum, 1922-1960. [San Antonio?]: [publisher not identified], 1966.

Prentiss Riddle was born in 1959 and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and Stillwater, Oklahoma. From a young age, he was an avid reader of science fiction.

Riddle entered the zine scene around 1971, at the age of 12 years. His older cousin Tommy Riddle invited him to join the APA Myriad. This marked the beginning of his interest in zines and self-publishing. Riddle was active in Myriad through his early teens, creating and editing apazines such as Pshaw!, P. Riddle Lumber Co., Mimeo, Ker-Plunk, and many others. He also contributes to other APAs such as Argos, with zines including Lazarus Long Lives! t-shirt, Hmmmmmmm, and Lonely are the Unshared Stars. He attended UT Austin from 1978-1984 and stayed on as an employee in the CS Department through 1986. Starting in 1983 or 1984, he became active in various campus political groups. Drawing on hid background in zines, I wrote and edited some of the newsletters and flyers in the University Peace and Justice Coalition materials.

Riddle currently resides in Portugal.

Steve Perrin was an American game designer and technical writer/editor, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing game [RPG] RuneQuest for Chaosium. In 1966, Perrin was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), the living history/historical reenactment group dedicated to "the research and re-creation of pre-seventeenth century skills, arts, combat, culture, and employing knowledge of history to enrich the lives of participants through events, demonstrations, and other educational presentations and activities. SCA is probably most known (certainly most visible) for its historical "tournaments" in which participants reenact jousts, medieval combat, and other historical activities.

Perrin first entered the RPG scene with "The Perrin Conventions" in 1976, a set of alternative rules for Dungeons & Dragons combat, which led to his work on RuneQuest. Perrin and his colleague Jeff Pimper published with Chaosium a D&D-based monster manual in 1977, which they called All the Worlds' Monsters, which beat TSR's more famous Monster Manual to market.Perrin - along with Steve Henderson and Warren James - began working on an idea for an original gaming system for their imagined world Glorantha, and were soon joined by Ray Turney from the original failed design team; this was finally published in 1978 as RuneQuest. RuneQuest proved to be an immensely popular gaming system, with new editions continuing to be produced through the present day. It was the source of a set of "Basic Role-Playing" rules that could be and were applied to a variety of different RPGs.

Perrin officially joined Chaosium in 1981, where he helped contribute to Thieves' World (1981). Perrin's Worlds of Wonder (1982) was the third release under Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing system. Superworld, one of Worlds of Wonders'worlds, became its own game, and in 1984 Perrin wrote the BRP-based Elfquest, based on the Elfquest comic book.While at Chaosium Perrin also created the RPG Stormbringer, based on the fiction of Michael Moorcock, and contributed to Call of Cthulhu.

He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, and writing manuals for a number of different computer games. In 2010, Perrin began creating PDF adventures for the games Icons and Mutants & Masterminds, and completed several scenarios for Vigilance Press and Fainting Goat Press. In 2019, he returned to Chaosium as a creative consultant. In 2020, he contributed to the Wild Cards novel Joker Moon.

Perrin died on August 13, 2021.

Gigi Edgley is an Australian actress, singer, songwriter, and performer, born in Perth on November 16, 1977. A frequent guest at science fiction conventions around the world, Edgley is probably best known for her role as the streetwise and insoucient Nebari fugitive Chiana, who joins the fugitive crew of the ship Moya in the Australian-American television show Farscape (1999-2003). She is the daughter of theatre, concert and circus promoter Michael Edgley, known for bringing the Moscow State Circus to Australia during the 1980s. Edgley, experienced in ballet, jazz, and character dance became interested in acting and had her first professional theatrical engagement at the Twelfth Night Theatre. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 1998.

Edgley's first acting role was in the Australian TV minseries The Day of the Roses in 1998. Since that debut she has appeared in a number of films and television shows, perhaps most notably as one of the lead actors in the Nine Network medical drama Rescue: Special Ops (2009-2011). Edgley has also been a regular lead cast member in several other television shows, including The Secret Life of Us in 2003 and Stingers in 2004. In addition, her Farscape role allowed her the opportunity to host the 2014 SyFy show Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge.

She is an active singer and songwriter, having starred in and directed several music videos. Edgley has been nominated for a number of awards over her career, including the Film’s Critic’s Circle of Australia nomination for Best Lead Actress in the feature Last Train To Freo, the SyFy Genre Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series, and the Maxim Award for Sexiest Space Babe (all three of these for Farscape).

Edgley currently resides in West Hollywood, CA, is married, and has one child, her daughter Skye. More information about Edgley can be found at http://www.gigiedgley.com/.

Sir Angus Wilson (full name Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson), 11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991, was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors.

William Wallace Burns (1825-1892) was born at Coshocton, Ohio September 3, 1825. At age 17 he was appointed to the United States Military Academy from which he graduated in 1847. He was posted to the United States Army Infantry and served during the Mexican American War (1846-1848) on recruiting duty, then spent several years at various Indian posts in the West and Southwest. In 1858, he accepted a staff commission as Commissary of Subsistence with the rank of Captain.

Remaining with the U. S. Army, Burns served with the Army of the Potomac in the first months of the Civil War as General George B. McClellan's Chief Commissary in the West Virginia Campaign. Burns was appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers September 28, 1861, and beginning the following Spring in the Peninsular Campaign (March-August 1862), commanded a Brigade of General John Sedwick's 2nd Division 2nd Corps, during which Burns was wounded and favorably mentioned by McClellan. On sick leave for some months, Burns subsequently commanded the 1st Division, 9th Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11-13, 1862).

On March 20, 1863, Burns resigned his Volunteer commission and reverted to his staff rank of Major and Commissary. He served as Chief Commissary in the Department of the Northwest until the close of the Civil War and later discharged with distinction the same duties in various Southern departments.

Following the Civil War, Burns was promoted in the Commissary service, first to Lieutenant Colonel (1874), then to Colonel (1884). In the meantime, he had been breveted Brigadier General March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the Civil War. William Wallace Burns retired on September 3, 1889, and died April 19, 1892, at Beaufort, South Carolina. He was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

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"William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General, United States Army." Arlington National Cemetery Website. [Viewed 10/15/02:12: 22 PM at: ]

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.

W. J. Estelle, Jr. was born March 31, 1931, in Henry County, Indiana. Soon after, however, the Estelles moved to California, where Mr. Estelle spent most of his childhood. Following high school, Mr. Estelle attended Sacramento State College and received a B. A. in Police Science and Correctional Administration. He went on to do graduate work in criminology at the University of California-Berkeley and at Sam Houston State University.

Mr. Estelle's first job was with the California Department of Corrections. In eighteen years, his positions ranged from correctional officer to associate warden, and he worked in nearly every area from reception to maximum security. His employment experience also included five years as a field parole officer, two years as Warden of the Montana State Prison, and some experience in teaching correctional administration at two California colleges. Mr. Estelle was also a member of several criminal justice associations and he served as vice-president of both the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the American Correctional Association.

In September 1972, Mr. Estelle accepted a position as Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. In 1983, he left to accept a position as president of a bank in Consol, Texas. A year later, Mr. Estelle returned to California, where he has lived ever since. He is presently working in the Industrial Division of the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento.

Janet Fox was a long-time writer of fantasy and horror short stories. She had stories published in such magazines and anthologies as Year's Best Horror, Year's Best Fantasy, Twilight Zone Magazine, 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares and Sword and Sorceress, as well as many small press publications. Under the pen name Alex McDonough, she wrote five novels in the Scorpio series published by Ace Books.

Heinrich Hoffmann, Sr. (1885-1957) was a noted German photographer and proprietor of a photographic agency, and a rare “close” friend and confidant of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Hitler made Hoffmann his exclusive photographer, which over the course of the 1930s and 1940s allowed Hoffmann to create a massive and unequaled photographic archive of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. In addition to the millions of images in Hoffmann’s collection, he also owned several watercolors that had been painted by Hitler as a young man. Hoffmann and his wife Therese Baumann had two children: Henriette (1913-1992), who married Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach in 1932; and Heinrich, Jr. (1916-1988).

In 1937, Hoffmann, Sr. gifted the family’s photo archive proprietorship to his son Heinrich, Jr. The archive at that time consisted of 2.5 million photographs and 350,000 glass plate negatives. Hoffmann, Jr. operated the Hoffmann Presse until 1945. As the Allied armies began closing in on Germany in that year, Hoffmann, Jr. stored most of the photographic archive at a castle in Winhoring, in eastern Bavaria. Meanwhile, Hoffmann, Sr. hid the Hitler watercolors and the rest of his own art collection at a second eastern Bavarian castle, in Dietramszell. Both father and son were arrested by the United States Army in May 1945. Hoffmann, Sr. was tried as a war profiteer (he had grown rich off royalties for the use of his photographs) and jailed until mid-1950. His son was held by the Army until May 1949.

The Three Hoffmann Property Groups

1. The Photographic Archive (Main)
   In May 1945 both castles were requisitioned by the U.S Army for use as officers’ billets, and the Hoffmann photos and art were discovered. The photographic archive was seized by the Army. A large portion of the archives was sent to Nuremberg for use by the War Crimes Commission from 1945-1949 and was subsequently transferred to the Army’s Historical Division in Frankfurt in April 1949. The entire archive was shipped to the United States in October 1949, to the Army’s German Military Documents Section in Alexandria, VA. On May 31, 1951, the U.S. government’s Office of Alien Property vested ownership of the Hoffmann archive in the Attorney General under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act. The photographs themselves have been held by the National Archives and Records Administration since 1962.

The Hoffmanns had been aware that the photographs were in the Army’s possession – both father and son were summoned to Nuremberg to help catalog the archive there and identify images for use in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Hoffmann, Jr. claimed that he had been told the images would be returned to his family once the Army was finished with them. Between 1949 and 1951 he wrote numerous letters to the Army protesting the removal of what he believed to be his family’s property to the United States.  He even made a visit to the United States in 1971 to view the collection at the National Archives. In 1982, Hoffmann, Jr and his sister Henriette Hoffmann Von Schirach contracted with Texas businessman Hitler art expert Billy F. Price, wherein the Hoffmann heirs agreed to convey ownership of the photographs (which they believed they still legally possessed) to Price in exchange for Price’s aid in removing the materials from U.S. government possession.

2. &The “Time-Life” Photographic Archive*
   The Hoffmann photo archive in the holdings of the National Archives was not, however, the entirety of the original collection. In May 1945, a portion of the archive was stolen from Hoffmann’s Berlin photo studio by two photographers for Life _Magazine_and held in the Time-Life archives until 1981, at which time Time-Life, Inc. offered and transferred the images to the U.S. Army’s Carlisle Barracks at Carlisle, PA.

3. The Hitler Watercolors
   In May 1945, the U.S. Army discovered at Dietramszell both Hoffmann, Sr.’s four watercolors that had been painted by Hitler as well as the rest of his extensive art collection. The paintings were all sent to a central collecting point in Munich and in1949 to another at Wiesbaden. In 1951 the four Hitler watercolors were transferred to the Army Historical Division (now the Center for Military History) in Alexandria, VA, where they remain.

In 1982 Billy F. Price, founder and president of Price Compressor Company in Houston, was doing research for his book Adolph Hitler: The Unknown Artist. The book was a de facto catalogue raisonne of Hitler’s artistic work, a product of Price’s fervent interest in Hitler-as-artist and his belief that something of Hitler’s psychology might be understood through his art. In the course of researching the book, Price came across evidence of the four Hoffmann-owned watercolors in the Army’s possession. He contacted Henriette von Schirach, at which point she and her brother conveyed ownership of the watercolors (and the aforementioned photographs) to Price, and Price agreed to press the Army and the government for the return of the Hoffmann materials and/or compensation for damages.

4. The Case
   In 1982-1983 Price, through his lawyer, Robert I. White, filed multiple administrative claims against the U.S. Army for the return of the photographs and the watercolors. After the Army refused, in August 1983 Price and the Hoffmann heirs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas under the Foreign Torts Claims Act for the return of the items.

This filing marked the start of two decades of different cases and subsequent appeals filed in assorted federal district and circuit courts, either by Price, et.al., or by the U.S. Government. The White Papers are structured into series based on the individual cases in the prolonged suit. (See Scope and Content Note)

In the end, the case ended unsuccessfully for Price and his fellow litigants. In 2002 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal (designated as Case #01-1111) from a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (designated as Case #00-1131), that found for the Government. A few remaining issues requiring resolution in lower courts were dealt with additional filings in federal court. The entire case was brought to its ultimate conclusion by a final denial by the Supreme Court for the Hoffmann heirs’ petition for a writ of certiorari in 2004.

The final decision was, as in many such cases, determined by a number of technical, obscure-to-the-layman legal points. However, in summary, the Government successfully made the case that both the photographs and the Hitler watercolors legitimately belonged to the United States as confiscated spoils of war, under the terms of numerous interagency and international agreements, including the 1945 Potsdam Agreement, the 1951 Vesting Order issued by the U.S. Army and the 1954 settlement treaty between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. The materials all remain to this day the property of the United States and are held by the U.S. Army and the National Archives and Records Administration.

British poet and novelist, Roy Broadbent Fuller was born in Failsworth, Lancashire 11 February 1912. After the death of their father, Roy Fuller and his brother, along with their mother, Nellie Broadbent Fuller, moved to Blackpool. Admitted as a solicitor in 1934, he then married Kathleen Smith in 1936. With their young son and only child, John Fuller, the couple moved to London just before the outbreak of World War II. There, Roy Fuller joined the Woolwich Equitable Building Society, a home-mortgage company, with whom he remained until his retirement in 1987. Fuller left the Woolwich for military duty during World War II, from 1941-1946, when he served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, first as a radar mechanic in Kenya, then as a radio and radar officer at the Admiralty. As soon as the war ended and he was demobilized, Fuller returned to the Woolwich, rising from Assistant Solicitor to Solicitor to the Society (1958-1969), and finally to Director (1969-1987).

The influence of William Wordsworth, Hugh Wystan Auden, and to some extent Alexander Pope, was apparent in Fuller's earliest published poetry, Poems (London: Fortune, 1939). Though Poems spoke to the fear and tension engendered by the Spanish Civil War, Fuller's next two books of poetry, The Middle of a War (London: Hogarth Press, 1944), and A Lost Season (London: Hogarth Press,1944) are refreshed and informed more by his own war experiences, particularly the less glamorous aspects of tedium, and shortages suffered by most of the civilian population in England at the time. Fuller credited the discipline of military life with the precision and complex structure of this more mature poetic style. The time Fuller spent in East Africa was particularly valuable in providing time to write and new experiences to explore, especially those of a generally urbane and family-oriented Englishman faced with the possibilities of violence and early death, the persistence of loneliness for loved ones and well-known scenes, and the ever-present vicissitudes of difficult and often boring war-time travel. Africa's influence on Fuller was profound, as evidenced in several poems from A Lost Season. Fuller's sense of war's darkness was highlighted by the exotic and primal aspects of the African landscape. As one of the most significant of the World War II English poets, Fuller spoke in a more studied manner, and with the voice of the home-front denizen, rather than that of the fighting man.

After the end of World War II and his demobilization, Fuller continued writing and publishing important poetry, but he also turned to write fiction, including Savage Gold (1946), a collection of boy's adventure tales, which also draws on the author's fascination with Kenya, and With My Little Eye (1948), a work on crime detection. Subsequent to the immediate postwar lull in literary activity, English poets by the 1950s seemed to coalesce into a group eventually called The Movement. This group was generally dedicated to robust and ironic poems, forthright in tone, and often intricate in versification. Before the war, Fuller's work had already become famous for these very characteristics; thus, he emerged as both The Movement's father figure and a link between English poetry of the 1930s and 1950s. Other poets in The Movement included Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, Elizabeth Jennings, and Thom Gunn. Two important anthologies of these poets' work including poems by Fuller, New Lines: an Anthology, and New Lines II, were edited by Robert Conquest and published by Macmillian in 1956 and 1963 respectively. During this interesting period of English literary development, Fuller published two more verse collections and four novels.

Noteworthy among Fuller's postwar works are three books of poetry. Epitaphs and Occasions (1949) owed much to 18th-century poetry's assertion of civilization's need for balance in viewpoint and poetic style, as well as complexity and integrity of poetic execution. Counterparts (1954); and Brutus's Orchard (1957) presented Fuller's wry honesty and increasingly more assertively dramatic poetic voice, recalling the classical literary influences propounded by the 18th-century poets themselves. Again Wordsworth's influence was also noticeable. By 1962, when Fuller's Collected Poems: 1936-1961 appeared, he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets of the post-Auden generation. Buff (1965) contained the third sonnet sequence published by Fuller, and New Poems (1968) won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Not as romantic as Dylan Thomas or George Barker, Fuller persistently grew as a poet and by the end of his career possessed a dryly witty, ironic and dramatic style, always humane and honest in its evaluation of the writer himself, as well as the society in which he lived and to which he owed his best efforts as a citizen of the world.

Not only a poet and novelist but a formidable civic servant, Fuller served as the Vice-President of the Buildings Societies Association (1969-1987); a Governor of the BBC (1972-1979); member of the Arts Council (1976-1977); Member of the Library Advisory Council for England (1977-1979). Other awards and honors included the Queen's Medal for Poetry (1970); the Cholmondeley Award, Society of Authors (1980); and an honorary D.Litt., University of Kent (1986). Fuller's autobiography was published over the course of several years in several volumes; Souvenirs (1980); Vamp Till Ready (1982); Home and Dry (1984); The Strange and the Good: Complete Memoirs (1989). Roy Fuller died in Blackheath, London September 27, 1991.

Bibliography
Austin, Allan E. "Roy (Broadbent) Fuller," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 20: British Poets, 1914-1945. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald E. Stanford, Louisiana State University. The Gale Group, 1983, pp. 132-140.

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.