John Kippax
(June 10, 1915 – July 17, 1974)
John Kippax was the working name of John Charles Hynam a UK fan and more notably pro active from the 1950s until his death.
Kippax attended the Festivention in 1951 where he is pictured sitting next to his friend and later collaborator Dan Morgan. They had played in the same dance band, both as guitarists.
His first published genre story, 'Dimple' in Science Fantasy #11 (December 1954), was followed by nearly fifty others. He wrote or co-wrote four novels, three in collaboration with Morgan. He also wrote for the children's magazine Young Elizabethan and the music paper Melody Maker.
A profile in New Worlds #58 (April 1957) said he was an English master at a grammar school although he still contrived to write 1,000 words a day.
Brian Aldiss, in a letter to Prolapse #10 (February 2008), credited Kippax with a still more prolific two million words a year and said that his big success was a non-genre play for the BBC. He bought a new car with the proceeds but was killed in a road accident.
Dan Morgan said, in that same issue of Prolapse:
[Kippax] had a manic enthusiasm that enabled him to turn out reams of stuff ...He had a loud, schoolteacher's voice and liked nothing better than to address the assembled company, whilst at the same time looking at his own reflection in a mirror.
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