E. R. James
(April 12, 1920 – August 25, 2012)
Ernest Rayer James was a UK fan and more notably pro from Gloucestershire and later Yorkshire active from the 1940s to the 1960s and then with a handful of stories in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Society (BFS) and the British Fantasy Library (BFL).
During the Second World War he served in the army as a lance corporal and was wounded in Normandy. He joined the BFS around December 1945, and published his first story in 1947..
Professionally, he published one novel and forty-odd short stories through to 1963, and a further seven in the 1980s and 1990s.
He is not listed in the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945 although he does feature in later directories in the 1950s from Ron Bennett.
He was a cousin of author (and fellow BFS member) Francis G. Rayer. He worked as a postman.
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