Author Description

Charles Fort devoted his life to attacking one of the modern world's most sacred cows: traditional science, with all its authority and presuppositions. His method was simple; he collected and published reliable accounts of events that science cannot explain.Fort's boldness, imagination, and conviction earned him the admiration of many of the leading thinkers of his day, and led to a completely new field of study: Forteana. Today, even scientists are beginning to explore the implications of Fortean material.This book is the first full-scale biography of Charles Fort. It is a lively, sympathetic, and thought-provoking portrait of a strange and brilliant man. In preparing this work, biographer Damon Knight, winner of the Hugo Award for science-fiction criticism, read every scrap of Fort's writing in existence, as well as recent accounts and commentaries on Fort and Fortean phenomena.