Tiffany Thayer
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Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (March 1, 1902–23 August 1959) was an American author and founder of the Fortean Society.
Born in Freeport, Illinois, Thayer quit school at age 15 and worked as an actor, reporter, and used-book clerk in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. At age 16, toured as the teenage hero in the Civil War drama The Coward. Thayer contaced author Charles Fort in 1924. In 1926, Thayer moved to New York City to act, but soon spent more time writing.
Thayer founded The Fortean Society in Britain in 1931 to promote the ideas of Fort. Towards the end of his life, Thayer had championed increasingly idiosyncratic ideas, such as a Flat Earth, and opposed others, such as the fluoridation of water supplies.
The Fortean Society Magazine (also called Doubt) was published regularly until Thayer's death in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1959, when society and magazine came to an end.
The magazine and society are not connected to the present-day magazine Fortean Times.
[edit] References
- Nichols, Lewis (June 10, 1956). A Talk With Tiffany Thayer. New York Times
- Skinner, Doug (Summer 2005) Doubting Tiffany. Fortean Times
