Ben Singer
(1931 – 2012)
Benjamin Donald Singer was active in fandom during the 1950s in Detroit, Michigan, where he was a founder of the Misfits sf club. He was a cousin of Roger Sims’. He was Nancy Moore’s boyfriend before she married Hal Shapiro.
Singer published the fanzine Mutant before turning it over to the Detroit club as its Official Organ. He also contributed to Art Rapp's Spacewarp. He published United Fandom with George Young.
While living in Detroit, he was a friend of Ray Nelson. Later, he and Nelson both worked for the Hudson Motor Company. When Nelson lived in Paris, Singer visited him there. Still later, they were fellow members of CAPA. Other CAPA members during the time Singer and Nelson were members included Howard DeVore, Len and June Moffatt, Jim and Barbara Harmon, and Jon D. Swartz.
In the early 1950s, Singer published two stories in Future Science Fiction.
In mundane life, Singer became a sociologist and lived and taught in Canada for many years. Presumably, he learned how to “Say Something in Canadian.” For several years, he was on the faculty of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. His wife, Eleanore, “barely tolerated fandom,” according to Howard DeVore. His daughter, Heidi, is a journalist in New York City.
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