Elinor Busby

Elinor Busby is the first woman to win a Hugo Award as co-editor of Cry of the Nameless for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine.

Elinor Busby
Born
Elinor Doub
Known forFirst woman to win a Hugo

Biography

Born Elinor Doub, Busby is a science fiction writer and Science-fiction fanzine editor and writer as well as a regular guest of honor and organizer at science fiction conventions mostly in the United States. She is married to editor F. M. Busby. They married in 1954 and had one daughter, Michele. Together with her husband she edited a fan magazine named Cry of the Nameless which won the Hugo award for Best Fanzine in 1960. They had previously been nominated in 1959 and were nominated again in 1962. She was awarded a Fan Activity Achievement Award for fan achievements, presented at Corflu in 2013.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Robert A. Heinlein in dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Busby and dedicated a later novel to her husband.[9] Busby's husband died in 2005 and she donated his papers to Rivera Library's Special Collections Department.[10]

Bibliography

Short fiction
  • Time to Kill (1977)
  • The Night of the Red, Red Moon (1983)

Essays
  • Letter (Science Fiction Review #21) (1977)
  • Letter (Science Fiction Review #31) (1979)
  • Friendship (1984)
  • Fan Guest of Honor: Jack Speer / Jack Speer (1984)
  • Fan Guest of Honor: Elinor Busby (1993)

References and sources
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  2. "Correction: Elinor Busby Was the First Woman To Win A Hugo". File 770. 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  3. "1960 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  4. "Summary Bibliography: Elinor Busby". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  5. "sfadb : Elinor Busby Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  6. Scithers, G.H.; Eney, D.; Busby, Elinor (2005). George Scithers's Con-Committee Chairman's Guide. Wildside Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-58715-980-0. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  7. Rusch, K.K. (2016). Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories. Baen Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-62579-522-9. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  8. Walton, J. (2018). An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000. Tom Doherty Associates. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-4668-6573-0. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  9. Heinlein, Robert A (1984). Friday. New England Library. ISBN 0-450-05549-3.
  10. "Busby (F.M.) papers". Online Archive of California. 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
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