Source: Wikipedia

Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (born November 23, 1914) is an American mystery and science fiction writer and fan. He occasionally publishes under the name Bob Tucker.

Tucker became involved in science fiction fandom in 1932 and in that decade began publishing a fanzine, The Planetoid. From 1938 to 1975, he published the fanzine Le Zombie, which lasted for more than sixty issues and later was revived as a webzine. He published the Bloomington News Letter from his home in Bloomington, Illinois which dealt with the writing field. Active in letter-writing as well, Tucker has long been a popular fan, coining many phrases familiar in fandom. On multiple occasions fallacious reports of his death have been made.

In 1941, Tucker published his first short story, "Interstellar Way Station." Between 1941 and 1979 he produced twenty-five science fiction short stories. He also turned his attention to writing novels, with eleven mystery novels and a dozen science fiction novels to his credit. His most famous novel may be The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970), which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Although Tucker has written more than twenty novels, both science fiction and mystery, he has always viewed writing as an avocation instead of an occupation. He worked instead as a movie projectionist and theater electrician.

Tucker is also noted for using the names of fellow fans and other friends in his fiction, to the point where the literary term for doing so is now called tuckerization.

Much of his short fiction was collected in The Best of Wilson Tucker (1982).

Detective bibliography

Chinese Doll (1946)

The Dove (1948)

Hired Target (1957)

Last Stop (1963)

Man in My Grave (1956)

A Procession of the Damned (1965)

Red Herring (1951)

Stalking Man (1949)

This Witch (1971)

To Keep or Kill (1947)

Warlock (1967)