E. Everett Evans
(November 30, 1893 – December 2, 1958)
Edward Everett Evans, aka “EEE,” “3E,” “Tripoli,” the “Grand Old Man” and “Th’ Ol’ Foo,” was a longtime fan who became an SF writer. He attended Midwestcon 1 in 1950. He helped to put on the first Westercon.
He grew up in Battle Creek Michigan and served in the military in World War I. During the war, he married Elizabeth Babbitt. They had three children, Virginia (later Satterlee-Newton), Carlton G., and Jonne Evans Bates (born Mary Joan, later Bates, later Hanlon). Everett and Elizabeth divorced during the 1930s.
For years, he was active in FAPA (publishing A Tour A Tale of the 'Evans) and LASFS. He published the fanzine The Timebinder in the 1940s, and several one-shot fannish publications such as What is S-F Fandom (1944) for N3F which he also helped found. He was President of the N3F 1943–45, although at the start of World War II, he was called up for war duties that had him giving up the office for a time, according to Bonflare. He edited Bonfire in 1942–44, and was founding editor of The National Fantasy Fan in 1945.
He lived in the Battle Creek Slan Shack and was a member of the Galactic Roamers before moving to L.A. with the other Galactic Roomers.
A compilation of his fantasy tales, Food for Demons, was published by Fantasy House as chapbook #2 in Ken Krueger's Fantasy Reader series in 1975 — with brief encomiums by some of Evans' friends and colleagues including Ray Bradbury, A. E. van Vogt, and E. E. Smith. The Big Heart Award, founded by Forrest J Ackerman to honor outstanding service and generosity to the SF field and for "typifying the spirit of SF writer E. Everett Evans," was named in his honor for many years.
He was not a very good fanwriter, and was named one of the “Turgid Triplets.” On the other hand, Evans's juvenile novel, The Planet Mappers (1955), won the Boys' Clubs of America annual award for "most enjoyable book."
His professional works included the novels Man of Many Minds (1953), The Planet Mappers (1955), Alien Minds (1955), and the posthumously-published collaboration with E. E. Smith Masters of Space (1976).
He moved to Los Angeles and married Thelma D. Hamm in 1951. She wrote science fiction, as well, and his daughter, Jonne Evans Bates, was also a fan. He died after a series of heart attacks and strokes, another victim of the Year of the Jackpot.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- N3F Founders column in the August 2015 (Volume 74, Number 8) issue of The National Fantasy Fan.
- [Photo] in LASFS Album.
- [Obituary] in Ground Zero 3, p. 13.
- [FindAGrave]
- A Tour (for FAPA)
- A Tale of the 'Evans (for FAPA)
- The Timebinder (1940s),
- What is S-F Fandom (1944 for N3F)
- Bonfire (1942–44)
- The National Fantasy Fan (founding editor, 1945)
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1949 -- LASFS Fanquet
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