Tim Underwood (1948-2023)
Publisher and author Tim Underwood, 75, died October 11, 2023 in hospice.
Tim Edward Underwood was born January 12, 1948 in Sault Ste Marie MI. Underwood co-founded small press Underwood Miller in 1976 with Chuck Miller; their first book was a hardcover of The Dying Earth by Jack Vance that same year. They went on to publish works by Philip K. Dick, Robert E. Howard, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, and more, plus art books on Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, and other creators, until closing in 1994.
In 1994, Underwood launched his own Underwood Books, specializing in art books. He published 20 volumes of the annual Spectrum anthology, along with books featuring artwork by Frank Frazetta, Donato Giancola, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Ilene Meyer, John Jude Palencar, Gahan Wilson, and others, along with occasional fiction and non-fiction works by authors including Dick, Ellison, and Silverberg.
Underwood was an expert on the work of Jack Vance, and created bibliographies Fantasy and Science Fiction by Jack Vance (1977, with Chuck Miller), Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance (1978, Daniel J.H. Levack), and Fantasms II: A Bibliography of the Works of Jack Vance (1979, with Levack & Kurt Cockrum). With Miller, he wrote Jack Vance (1980), part of the Writers in the 21st Century series. He and Miller also edited numerous books on Stephen King, including Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King (1982), Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King (1986), Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988), and Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (1992). Working alone, he published Stephen Kings Spills the Beans (2008), Savage Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined It (2010), and Shameless Art: Paintings of Dames, Dolls, Pin-ups, and Bad Girls (2010).
For more see his entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
