| Camille Cazedessus II | |
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| Born | December 8, 1938 Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Camille Cazedessus II (born December 8, 1938), also known as "Caz", is an American editor and publisher. Known for his work about pulp fiction, he has published over 200 issues of fanzines on the topic since 1960 under the titles ERB-dom, The Fantasy Collector and Pulpdom. He has also written and taught Western history.
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Cazedessus was born December 8, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the only child of engineer Camille Cazedessus. He graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1957 and Spring Hill College, where he graduated in 1961. He also attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La, and New Mexico Highlands College in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Ft. Lewis College, in each case studying American and South West history.
Organized and led the first teenage Rock and Roll band in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the Fall of 1956: "The Dots." In early 2010, the band was initiated into the Baton Rouge chapter of the Louisiana Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cazedessus was lead singer and rhythm guitar until the Fall of 1957, when he dropped out to go to Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama.
Later, as fans of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Cazedessus and Alfred Guillory, Jr. launched the fanzine ERB-dom in May 1960.[1] Following Guillory's death the following year, Caz became the magazine's sole editor and publisher. ERB-dom was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1964 and 1966, winning the award in 1966. ERB-dom went monthly in January 1970, with full color covers. In 1974 it returned to less frequent publication, and the "final" issue was No. 89, November, 1976. ERB-dom was revived as part of The Fantastic Collector in December 1993.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Cazedessus published books as Opar Press. He purchased the adzine The Fantasy Collector in 1968 from George Bibby, making it part of ERB-dom in Jan. 1970. Reinvigorated by Science Fiction fandom via the NOLA World Con in 1988, he revived The Fantasy Collector in Dec. 1988, and reserialized "A Son of the Stars" by Fenton Ash, from 1909. He soon changed the name to The Fantastic Collector which became Pulpdom in January 1997; all these issues contain articles on pulp magazines and popular authors of the early 20th century. After living in Taos, New Mexico, during the 1980s, he began publishing books as Rendezvous Books. He continues to publish while living in Chimney Rock, Colorado.
Cazedessus has written several books about Kit Carson.
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