"Forrest James Ackerman (1916–present)". Everythingvampire. http://www.everythingvampire.zoomshare.com/. Retrieved 2008-12-09. "Forrest James Ackerman, science fiction and horror fiction writer and editor, was born on November 24, 1916, in Los Angeles, the son of Carroll Cridland Wyman and William Schilling Ackerman. After attending the University of California at Berkeley for a year (1934–35), Ackerman held a variety of jobs and spent three years in the U.S. Army before founding the Ackerman Science Fiction Agency in 1947."
