Morton Handler

(March 14, 1927 – ????)

Morton Stanford Handler was a Chicago fan active in the 1940s. He attended Chicon, the 1940 Worldcon.

In his “Mumblings” column in Southern Star 5 (March 1945, p. 30), Bob Tucker wrote:

Next on our list of young public enemies is a chap in Chicago named Morton Handler. His sticker is very dignified, sedate, simple. It simply states: Morton Handler — Author. Nothing very damaging in that. When we read it we began reveiwing our memory train to find the stories he had written. Searching science fiction as we did, we were unable to find a single Handler story. We even considered Amazing since it was logical that his probable sales would be there. No luck. We have now come to the conclusion that either he (a) writes for western mags, or (b) he is the guy who signs his work “Anson MacDonald”.

We can’t find any stories by Handler, either.

In 1946, Handler enlisted in the Army. By 1951, he was working for Chicago and North Western Railroad as a telephone operator. Until 2002, he was living in Evanston, IL.

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Person

1927—????

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