(1925-1990) US biologist and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Life Sentence" for Galaxy Science Fiction in January 1953, and who founded and wrote a magazine, The Worm Runner's Digest, in 1959, where he published spoofs and Satires assembled as The Worm Re-Turns: The Best from The Worm Runner's Digest (coll 1965) and Science, Sex and Sacred Cows: Spoofs of Science from The Worm Runner's Digest (coll 1971); one of the spoofs, by Damon Knight, was reprinted with revisions from Hyphen. McConnell was a victim of the Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski), being partially deafened in 1985 by an explosive device concealed in an envelope. [JC/DRL]
James V McConnell
born Okmulgee, Oklahoma: 28 October 1925
died Ann Arbor, Michigan: 8 April 1990
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