Virginia Anderson

(March 20, 1920 – May 25, 1987)

Nanek, ca. 1942. From VOM 26.

Virginia Anderson (née Combs), a Milwaukee fan who used the penname Nanek, contributed articles, poetry and art to fanzines in the 1940s.

She also sold some poems to the prozines. Nils Hardin devoted Xenophile 40 (July 1978) to her work.

Virginia was married to Carl W. K. Anderson. She wrote for Milwaukee’s Southside Urban News Sun newspaper.

More Reading

• 1943 Autobiography in Light 30 (January 1946, p. 7).
• Bibliography at ISFDB.
• Bibliographies at Fiction Mags Index:
  • Virginia Anderson.
  • Virginia Combs.
  • Nanek.
• Milwaukee Co. Historical Society notes.
• Biographical information and poem at Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein.
• Virginia Combs Anderson at FindaGrave.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Earthspawn [1943]

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Person

1920—1987

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