Barbara Bovard

Barbara Bovard (1940s). Courtesy of Rob Hansen

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Barbara E. Bovard (aka Barbara Edge and BEB), a pioneering female L.A. fan of the 1930s and ’40s, started contributing to fanzines before Forry Ackerman dragged her into organized Shangri-LA fandom.

In 1942, she lived in Washington, DC, about which she wrote, “actifanlife is terrible” (Light 123). In 1943, she moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, and belonged to FAPA. In 1945, she moved back to L.A., but apparently gafiated soon afterward.

She may have gone by the name "The Atlantean."

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