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Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (March 1 1902 – August 23 1959) was an American
United States

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 actor
Actor

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, author
Author

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 and founder of the Fortean Society
Fortean Society

The Fortean Society was started in the United States in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer in order to promote the ideas of American writer Charles Fort. The Fortean Society was primarily based in New York City....
.

Born in Freeport, Illinois
Freeport, Illinois

Freeport is the county seat of Stephenson County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 26,443 at the United States Census 2000....
, Thayer quit school at age 15 and worked as an actor, reporter, and used-book clerk in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. Aged 16, he toured as the teenaged hero in the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
 drama The Coward. Thayer contacted American author Charles Fort
Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an United States writer and researcher into anomaly .Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a Satire hugely skeptical of human beings ? especially scientists ? claims to ultimate knowledge"....
 in 1924. In 1926, Thayer moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to act, but soon spent more time writing.

In 1931 Thayer founded the Fortean Society
Fortean Society

The Fortean Society was started in the United States in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer in order to promote the ideas of American writer Charles Fort. The Fortean Society was primarily based in New York City....
 in Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 to promote Fort's ideas, but the Society was primarily based in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 headed by first president Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalism school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency ....
, an old friend of Fort who had helped to get his work published.






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Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (March 1 1902 – August 23 1959) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and founder of the Fortean Society
Fortean Society

The Fortean Society was started in the United States in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer in order to promote the ideas of American writer Charles Fort. The Fortean Society was primarily based in New York City....
.

Born in Freeport, Illinois
Freeport, Illinois

Freeport is the county seat of Stephenson County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 26,443 at the United States Census 2000....
, Thayer quit school at age 15 and worked as an actor, reporter, and used-book clerk in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. Aged 16, he toured as the teenaged hero in the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
 drama The Coward. Thayer contacted American author Charles Fort
Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an United States writer and researcher into anomaly .Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a Satire hugely skeptical of human beings ? especially scientists ? claims to ultimate knowledge"....
 in 1924. In 1926, Thayer moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to act, but soon spent more time writing.

In 1931 Thayer founded the Fortean Society
Fortean Society

The Fortean Society was started in the United States in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer in order to promote the ideas of American writer Charles Fort. The Fortean Society was primarily based in New York City....
 in Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 to promote Fort's ideas, but the Society was primarily based in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 headed by first president Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalism school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency ....
, an old friend of Fort who had helped to get his work published. Early members of the original Society in NYC included such luminaries as Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington was an United States novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams ....
, Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
, Alexander Woolcott and H.L. Mencken.

Towards the end of his life, Thayer had championed increasingly idiosyncratic ideas, such as a Flat Earth
Flat Earth

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 and opposition to the fluoridation of water supplies.

The Fortean Society Magazine (also called Doubt) was published regularly until Thayer's death in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket, Massachusetts

Nantucket is an island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island and Muskeget, it constitutes the New England town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated....
 in 1959, aged 57, when the society and magazine came to an end. The magazine and society are not connected to the present-day magazine Fortean Times
Fortean Times

Fortean Times - "The World of Strange Phenomena" - is a United Kingdom monthly magazine devoted to the Anomaly popularised by Charles Fort....
.

Writers Paul and Ron Willis
Paul Willis

Paul Willis is a Northern Ireland goalkeeper, most recently with Liverpool F.C. Willis began training at Melwood full-time in the summer of 2005 after being promoted from the Academy....
, publishers of "Anubis", acquired most of the original Fortean Society material and revived the Society as the International Fortean Organization
International Fortean Organization

The International Fortean Organization is a network of professional Fortean researchers and writers. John Keel, author and parapsychologist, in both his writings and at his appearances at INFO's FortFest, says "the International Fortean Organization carries on Charles Fort's name as successor to the Fortean Society." Keel, Colin Wilson and Jo...
 (INFO) in the early 1960s which went on to incorporate in 1965, publish a widely respected magazine, The INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown, for more than 35 years and created the world's first, and most prestigious, conference dedicated to the work and spirit of Charles Fort, the annual FortFest which continues to this day.

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