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 Forrest J Ackerman (1916 – 2008), also known as “Forry,” “The Ackermonster,” “4e” and “4SJ,” was for more than seventy years one of science fiction’s most outspoken promoters, collectors and fans.
Ackerman was born in Los Angeles, United States, and briefly attended the University of California at Berkeley, worked as a movie projectionist and spent three years in the U.S. Army.
He was a collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and wrote numerous short stories, anthologies and non-fiction books; he was also a literary agent, a magazine editor based in California and one of the founders of science fiction fandom.
He purchased his first science fiction magazine at the age of ten, and, so taken by the stories he had been reading, created The Boys’ Scientifiction Club at age 14. He contributed to both of the first fan-based science fiction magazines - The Time Traveller and Science Fiction Magazine, and in his lifetime amassed a huge collection of science fiction memorabilia that he kept in his 18-room house and mansion called the ‘Son of Ackermansion’.
He was well known among writers of science fiction and as a literary agent represented some 200 authors, collaborating with several, including Jean Marie Stine, AE Van Vogt, Francis Flagg and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Ackerman also wrote the shortest science fiction story ever published, entitled “Cosmic Report Card: Earth,” consisting of the single letter “F”.
On December 4, 2008, Ackerman died at his home following a series of hospital visits, during the last of which he told his best friend and caregiver, Joe Moe, that he didn’t want to go on.
His plaque simply reads: “Sci-Fi Was My High”. [edit]
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