American Bibliographers: Donna Kossy, Mila Rechcigl, Allan H. Stevenson, Terry Belanger, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Hans P. Kraus, Henry Stevens

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Donna Kossy, Mila Rechcigl, Allan H. Stevenson, Terry Belanger, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Hans P. Kraus, Henry Stevens, Alexander Smith Taylor, Fredson Bowers, E. F. Bleiler, Joseph Amasa Munk, Samuel Austin Allibone, Henry Snyder, Mark Samuels Lasner, David Henige, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Clarence Barnhart, David Eugene Smith, William Frederick Poole, Frederick Leypoldt, Halsey Wilson, William Peterfield Trent, Darrell C. Richardson, Sheldon Jaffery, Frederick R. Goff, Thomas Lounsbury, Henry Hardy Heins, John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, Wilberforce Eames, John Foster Kirk, Richard Bleiler, Joseph H. Crawford, Jr., Marshall Tymn, James A. Corrick. Excerpt: Donna J. Kossy (born 1957) is a U.S. writer, zine publisher, and online used book dealer based in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the history of forgotten, discredited and extreme ideas, which she calls crackpotology and kookology, she is better known for her books Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief (1994, featuring the first biography of Francis E. Dec) and Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes (2001). Kossy was also the founder and curator of the Kooks Museum (1996-1999, online), and the editor-publisher of the magazine Book Happy (1997-2002, about weird and obscure books). Described by Wired as an expert on kooks has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects, Kossy wrote books reviewed in publications ranging from Fortean Times to New Scientist. Journalist Jonathan Vankin named her the unchallenged authority on, well, kooks, and writer Bruce Sterling noted that she boldly blazes new trails in the vast intellectual wilderness of American writers, thinkers and philosophers who were or are completely nuts. Donna J. Kossy was born in 1...