Documentary-in-Progress
William Tenn, A Writer's Life

Comments to Laurie Mann

Director David Brody has been working on William Tenn, A Writer's Life, and hopes to finish it up in 2007. He's filmed hours of interviews with William Tenn, Harry Harrison, Connie Willis, Gordon van Gelder and Dan Kimmel.

We're looking for additional materials to include in the documentary. In particular, we're looking for the following:

  • Photos of William Tenn/Phil Klass taken between 1920 and 2000. We have lots of recent photos, and a scattering of older ones. We'd particularly like photos from conventions he attended.
  • Generic photos of Brooklyn 1920-1943, paricularly those from immigrant Jewish families who lived in the Brownsville neighborhood where he grew up.
  • Photos from Penn State between 1967 and 1989.

If you have any photos like this, please scan them in at a high resolution. When you name the file, include your name. Let us know more about the photos in your E-mail. While we can't pay you for the scans, we will thank you in the credits of the documentary.

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Materials for Tenn Documentary

Thanks to:

  • James and Kathryn Daugherty, for taping parts of Loscon 2006
  • Kathi Overton, for provding a tape of the 2003 Nebula Awards Ceremony
  • Bill Jensen, for finding some tape of Paracon in the '80s where Phil spoke

We really appreciate your contributions to this project!!

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