Fort's biographer, Damon Knight, suggested that his distrust of authority began in his treatment as a child.
His father, a grocer, was an authoritarian, and in his unpublished autobiography Many Parts, Fort mentions the physical abuse he endured from his father. "Fortean" phenomena are events which seem to challenge the boundaries of accepted scientific knowledge, and the Fortean Times (founded as The News in 1973 and renamed in 1976) investigates such phenomena.įort was born in Albany, New York, in 1874, of Dutch ancestry. įort's collections of scientific anomalies, including The Book of the Damned (1919), influenced numerous science-fiction writers with their skepticism and as sources of ideas. His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Charles Hoy Fort (Aug– May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena.
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