Joe Gilbert
(21 November 1920 – 16 June 1983)
Dr.[1] Joseph Gatliff Gilbert was a Columbia, South Carolina, fan in the 1930s–1940s.
He was a member of FAPA and helped to organize the short-lived Dixie Fantasy Federation and was its secretary. With others they published the fanzine, The Southern Star, in the early 1940s. He was responsible for the Type Fifteen Fan.
His photo (with fellow fan, Harry Jenkins) appears on page 172 of Harry Warner's history of fandom in the 1940s, All Our Yesterdays (Advent, 1969). He was a charter member of The National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) in 1941 and was on its first Advisory Board. He is the subject of a Founding Members article in the June, 2017 issue (Volume 76, Number 6) of The National Fantasy Fan.
For an early short biography, see Who's Who in Fandom 1940, page 7.
- Sound Off! [early 40s] (for FAPA)
- The Southern Star [early 40s] (with Art Sehnert and Harry Jenkins)
- Unfamous Fantastic Mysteries [1942]
Joe Gilbert's grave (Jewish Cemetery, Columbia SC)
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- ↑ According to his obituary, he earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1934 and worked in VA hospitals.
