Elinor Busby
(September 30, 1924 – )
Elinor Busby (née Doub), a Seattle fan, was the first woman to win a Hugo Award, as co-editor of Cry of the Nameless, which won the 1960 Best Fanzine Hugo. (It was also nominated for the 1959 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1962 Best Fanzine Hugo.) She was a member of the Cry Crowd, and, of course, the Nameless Ones.
A prominent fanzine editor of the 1950s–60s, she received a FAAn Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013 at Corflu XXX. She was a member of the Cascade Regional Amateur Press Association, SAPS, OMPA, Lilapa, Apassembly, A Women's Apa and APANAGE.
Elinor was on the committee of Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon.
She was born in Tacoma, Washington, studied at the University of Washington, and married F. M. Busby in 1954.
Photos:[edit]
- Busby, right, accepting the gavel on behalf of Seacon from Dirce Archer, chair of Pittcon, 1960.
- Photo with Greg Benford, left, and Terry Carr at Noreascon 1, 1971.
- Photo, far left, with Sid Coleman, Terry Carr, and Barbara Silverberg in the con suite at Noreascon 1, 1971.
- Photo on page 218 of Harry Warner's history of fandom, A Wealth of Fable (1992).
- Cry of the Nameless (co-editor)
- Dolphin (for OMPA)
- Fapulous (for FAPA)
- Fendenizen
- Gosling (for SAPS)
- An Index to the People in ASI [1962]
- Memory Lane (for SAPS)
- Polarity (with F. M. Busby)
- Rain Arrow (for C/RAPA)
- Salud
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1959 -- 1959 Best Fanzine Hugo nominee
- 1960 -- 1960 Best Fanzine Hugo
- 1962 -- 1962 Best Fanzine Hugo nominee
- 1963 -- Westercon 16
- 1979 -- KulaCon
- 1982 -- Rain Fore
- 1984 -- Westercon 37
- 2009 -- Corflu 26
- 2013 -- FAAn Award for Lifetime Achievement
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