Joseph Wrzos (1929-2022)
Author, editor, and fan Joseph Wrzos, 93, died April 7, 2023. He often wrote and edited under the name Joseph Ross.
Joseph Henry Wrzos was born September 9, 1929 in Newark NJ. He attended Rutgers University, graduating in 1952, and went to graduate school at Columbia University. He worked as a high school librarian, and spent most of his career as an English teacher.
Wrzos was an editor at Gnome Press from 1953-54, managing editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic from 1965-1967, and consulted on the relaunch of Amazing Stories in 2012. Wrzos edited The Best of Amazing (1967), In Lovecraft’s Shadow: The Cthulhu Mythos Stories of August W Derleth (1998), Seabury Quinn collection Night Creatures (2003, with Peter Ruber), and World Fantasy and Locus Award finalist Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (2012).
He received the Sam Moskowitz Archive Award from First Fandom in 2004 and 2009, and was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2016.
For more, see his entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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