Ellis Mills

Ellis Mills at Clevention in 1955. Photo by George Young.

(October 23, 1930 -- )

Ellis T. Mills, an American fan active in the 1950s and ’60s, published Grist for OMPA, and the Ur & Xanadu Review, the latter while a technical sergeant stationed at Carswell AFB in Texas in 1959 and Lowrey Air Force Base in Denver in 1960. Earlier, he was part of the group behind Contact.

He attended a number of Worldcons, and spent a time stationed in the UK and on duty around Europe.

In the Bagby Hoax, he wrote the letter as the author’s purported granddaughter, Dorcas Bagby Whittier.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Alors (1957, with Jean Linard and Pierre Versins)
• Contact (late ’50s, as part of the Contact Group)
• Grist (1957–63, for OMPA)
• Styx [1955-56] (for OMPA)
• Ur & Xanadu Review (1959–60)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1957 — Knight of St. Fantony

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