Claire Anderson
(???? -- December 4, 2018)
Claire Graham Anderson was a long-time Boston fan who became active in NESFA in the 1970s and remained active until her death. Working mostly in the background, she was a mainstay of NESFA, having served many times as Clerk where she set an enviable standard for publishing interesting, large and on-time issues of Instant Message.
With her husband, fellow fan Dave Anderson, she co-chaired Boskone 26 and Boskone 37. She was a member of MCFI and of APA-NESFA. She was named a Fellow of NESFA in 1984. In con-running she was probably best known for her work in Art Shows including Noreascon 3, many Boskones, a WFC and assisting at many other regionals and Worldcons and was a member of the East Coast Floating Art Show Crew. She specialized in setting up brilliant and creative small exhibits on GoHs and award winners at Boskone.
As a professional librarian, she also led NESFA's library for many years. She seemed to have read everything and had a rare knack for knowing just the right book to recommend tpo others -- When David Brin's first book Sundiver came out, before anyone else in the club had even noticed it, she read it and then thrust it into other NESFA members' hands saying, "You gotta read this!"
Her friends also knew her as a sharp wit who muttered the exactly appropriate comment on so many, many occasions. (Entirely dispelling the demure image she liked to present.)
She and Dave were book h/o/a/r/d/e/r/s/ collectors, who seemingly had read every book in their vast collection. At one point the NESFA Displacement Authority was helping them move to a new house and to empty the old house, NESFAns had formed a human chain moving neatly packed boxes of books out of the basement and into a truck. After when seemed like hundreds of boxes, word came down the line "We can see the wall!" There was rejoicing. Thirty boxes later, word again came down the line, "There's a door in the wall!" And there was, leading to another room also full of boxes of books...
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