Jim Young

One of the Minn-STF "floundering fathers", chairman or (chairman emeritus) of many early Minicons (including Minicon 1, founder of the Minneapolis in '73 bid. He is a fan writer, artist, and song writer:

Don't ever be a dodo For if you are a dodo It shows that you've read Golgol And Golgol's just so-so

Well, OK.

He has also written two SF novels, The Face of the Deep (Pocket 1979) and Armed Memory (Tor 1995) as well as a number of shorter works. Until he retired, he was a career diplomat with the State Department Foreign Service and is now writing and acting in Hollywood films.