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A [[fan]], publisher, [[SF]] editor, and critic, '''Finis Earl Kemp''' won a [[Best Fanzine Hugo Category|Hugo Award for Best Fanzine]] in [[1961 Best Fanzine Hugo|1961]] for ''[[Who Killed Science Fiction?]]'', a collection of questions and answers with top writers in the field. Next, he produced ''[[Why Is a Fan?]]'', with opinions from dozens of [[fans]].   
 
A [[fan]], publisher, [[SF]] editor, and critic, '''Finis Earl Kemp''' won a [[Best Fanzine Hugo Category|Hugo Award for Best Fanzine]] in [[1961 Best Fanzine Hugo|1961]] for ''[[Who Killed Science Fiction?]]'', a collection of questions and answers with top writers in the field. Next, he produced ''[[Why Is a Fan?]]'', with opinions from dozens of [[fans]].   
  
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A [[Chicago]] fan, Kemp was [[president]] of the [[Chicago Clubs#University of Chicago Science Fiction Club]] for almost a decade, and was probably responsible for the [[science fiction]] lecture series that brought [[Robert Heinlein]], [[C. M. Kornbluth]], [[Robert Bloch]] and [[Alfred Bester]] to campus and resulted in ''The Science Fiction Novel: Imaginative and Social Criticism'' ([[Advent Publishing|Advent:Publishers]], 1959), which he edited.   
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Born in Arkansas, he later moved to [[Chicago]]. Kemp was [[president]] of the [[Chicago Clubs#University of Chicago Science Fiction Club]] for almost a decade, and was probably responsible for the [[science fiction]] lecture series that brought [[Robert Heinlein]], [[C. M. Kornbluth]], [[Robert Bloch]] and [[Alfred Bester]] to campus and resulted in ''The Science Fiction Novel: Imaginative and Social Criticism'' ([[Advent Publishing|Advent:Publishers]], 1959), which he edited.   
  
 
He served as [[chairman]] of the 20th [[Worldcon]], [[Chicon III]], held in Chicago. He edited ''[[The Proceedings Chicon III]]''  ([[Advent Publishing|Advent:Publishers]], 1963). Before winning with the [[Chicago in 1962]] bid, he led two failed bids: [[Chicago: 1959|Chicago: 1959]] and [[Chicago in '60]]. He was involved in the semi-serious [[Tijuana in '69]] [[Westercon bid]] and was the subject of [[The Kemp Fund]] to bring him to [[Chicon IV]] in 1982.
 
He served as [[chairman]] of the 20th [[Worldcon]], [[Chicon III]], held in Chicago. He edited ''[[The Proceedings Chicon III]]''  ([[Advent Publishing|Advent:Publishers]], 1963). Before winning with the [[Chicago in 1962]] bid, he led two failed bids: [[Chicago: 1959|Chicago: 1959]] and [[Chicago in '60]]. He was involved in the semi-serious [[Tijuana in '69]] [[Westercon bid]] and was the subject of [[The Kemp Fund]] to bring him to [[Chicon IV]] in 1982.

Revision as of 02:56, 25 October 2021

(November 24, 1929 – February 6, 2020)

A fan, publisher, SF editor, and critic, Finis Earl Kemp won a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1961 for Who Killed Science Fiction?, a collection of questions and answers with top writers in the field. Next, he produced Why Is a Fan?, with opinions from dozens of fans.

Born in Arkansas, he later moved to Chicago. Kemp was president of the Chicago Clubs#University of Chicago Science Fiction Club for almost a decade, and was probably responsible for the science fiction lecture series that brought Robert Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Robert Bloch and Alfred Bester to campus and resulted in The Science Fiction Novel: Imaginative and Social Criticism (Advent:Publishers, 1959), which he edited.

He served as chairman of the 20th Worldcon, Chicon III, held in Chicago. He edited The Proceedings Chicon III (Advent:Publishers, 1963). Before winning with the Chicago in 1962 bid, he led two failed bids: Chicago: 1959 and Chicago in '60. He was involved in the semi-serious Tijuana in '69 Westercon bid and was the subject of The Kemp Fund to bring him to Chicon IV in 1982.

He was a member of the N3F and the (1962) Chicago SFL (II). He led production of The Purple Pastures at Pittcon.

In the 1950s, he compiled four lists of "The Science Fiction Book Index" that appeared in various publications.

Kemp helped found Advent:Publishers, a small press publisher focused on SF criticism, history, and bibliography.

Kemp worked as an editor under Algis Budrys at Blake Pharmaceuticals in Evanston, IL, producing pornography for William L. Hamling. During the 1960s and 1970s, Kemp was involved in publishing a number of erotic paperbacks, including an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. This publication led to their both being sentenced to prison for "conspiracy to mail obscene material," but they served only the federal minimum of three months and one day.

After many years of inactivity, he published the electronic fanzine e*I from 2002 to 2012.

He was married to fellow fan Nancy Kemp in 1949. Their son, Earl Terry Kemp, is also a fan and a sf historian.

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