Mari Wolf
(August 27, 1927 – )
Mari Wolf (briefly, Graham), a Los Angeles SF fan and author, ran a fan column, "Fandora's Box" (also the name of her Hollywood apartment), for the prozine Imagination from April 1951 to April 1956. Wolf wrote about SF and SF fandom, reviewed and ranked fanzines, and interviewed authors.
She doled out egoboo with such heedless abandon that the character styled as the Giantess in The Enchanted Duplicator was modeled after her. (Her column was similar to "The Club House," a column by Rog Phillips — aka Roger Graham, Wolf’s husband — which appeared from 1948 to 1953 in Amazing and later in other SF magazines edited by Ray Palmer.)
As of 1950, Wolf was a member of the Outlander Society and the N3F.
Several of Wolf's SF stories appeared in If, including the short novel Homo Inferior (November, 1953). She was first to use the abbreviation droid for a robot; it appeared in her 1952 story, "Robots of the World! Arise!" She also wrote mysteries, including The Golden Frame (1961).
In a brief autobiography in the March 1952 Imagination, she wrote that she’d wanted to be a writer since she was 5 years old. She recounted that she was introduced to SF conventions by Graham's "The Club House," met him at her first, the Norwescon in Portland, OR, in September 1951, and married him the next month. However, the marriage ended in 1955.
She had a lifelong interest in mathematics and rocket science. She attended UCLA where she studied mathematics, and then worked in the aerospace industry in Southern California, as a "calculating-machine operator" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1950s.
- Autobiography in the March 1952 Imagination, p. 2.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- Works at Project Gutenberg.
- Mari Wolf Resurrected: The Complete Short Stories of Mari Wolf, Resurrected Press (2011).
- Reprint of Wolf’s story “Prejudice” (with art by Julian May) and a reminiscence about her column by Ted White in Earl Kemp’s e.I #5.
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