Description:
Ray Nelson was born on 3 October 1931 in Schenectady, New York, USA. Ray was a writer, known for They Live (1988) and 8 O'Clock in the Morning. Ray was married to Kirsten Enge, Lisa Mullikin, Perdita Lilly and Helene Knox. Ray died on 30 November 2022 in the USA.
Birthday
October 3, 1931
Born In
Schenectady, New York, USA
Spouse/Ex-
Kirsten Enge October 4, 1957 - November 6, 2011 (her death),Lisa Mullikin 1955 - 1957 (divorced),Perdita Lilly 1951 - 1955 (divorced),Helene Knox ? - November 30, 2022 (his death)
Trivia
Science Fiction author and cartoonist Ray Nelson was the inventor of
the propeller beanie while still in high school. There are varying
versions of the story, but the gist is that, in 1947, at a small
science fiction convention in Cadillac, Michigan, Nelson and some
friends were cartooning, parodying science-fiction icons of the day,
and Nelson found some scraps of plastic and attached them to a hat.
Soon they became a proudly worn feature of the science fiction
crowd.
Quotes
Centuries after all my writings have been forgotten, in some far corner of the galaxy, a Beany-Copter will still be spinning.
