Omphalos
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Hi all,
One of the things I've done as a hobby over the past few years is to put together and maintain a bibliography of Dune related items. The main list can be found HERE.
One of the items on that list is a book that was supposed to have been written by a guy named Harold Lee Prosser. The book in the format I have it listed in was a Borgo Press book, but I spoke to the publisher, Robert Reginald/Mike Burgess. He told me that he bought the book on spec, secured an ISBN, then Borgo folded and he returned the manuscript to Prosser.
Over the last three years I have pretty much exhausted all efforts to find him. Carl Yoke, who edited a Greenwood Press book that Prosser wrote an article for told me a couple of years ago that he used the pseudonym of Justin Willard Pinoak, but I haven't been able to scratch up anything that way either. Yoke also mentioned that Prosser was an instructor in sociology at Southwest Missouri State University, but the HR people there don't know that name.
I fear that he may have passed on, so I've looked for estate records too, but again, came up blank. I do think that I found a record of a Prosser repository of poetry at the University of New Mexico, but after speaking to the librarian there - who was kind enough to pull a few items from the shelf - it may be that there are two Prossers out there. I did find another one in BIP, so maybe so.
As a last ditch attempt before I write this author off, I was wondering if anyone here had a line on him? I only want to ask him what happened to the completed manuscript that he turned it. For example, did it ever get published under another name, or in a different form? If he has passed, Id appreciate some contact info to the estate's administrator. If that is too much, perhaps someone could pass my contact to either Prosser or his estate's administrator, and they can decide if they want to talk to me.
Any help is much appreciated.
One of the things I've done as a hobby over the past few years is to put together and maintain a bibliography of Dune related items. The main list can be found HERE.
One of the items on that list is a book that was supposed to have been written by a guy named Harold Lee Prosser. The book in the format I have it listed in was a Borgo Press book, but I spoke to the publisher, Robert Reginald/Mike Burgess. He told me that he bought the book on spec, secured an ISBN, then Borgo folded and he returned the manuscript to Prosser.
Over the last three years I have pretty much exhausted all efforts to find him. Carl Yoke, who edited a Greenwood Press book that Prosser wrote an article for told me a couple of years ago that he used the pseudonym of Justin Willard Pinoak, but I haven't been able to scratch up anything that way either. Yoke also mentioned that Prosser was an instructor in sociology at Southwest Missouri State University, but the HR people there don't know that name.
I fear that he may have passed on, so I've looked for estate records too, but again, came up blank. I do think that I found a record of a Prosser repository of poetry at the University of New Mexico, but after speaking to the librarian there - who was kind enough to pull a few items from the shelf - it may be that there are two Prossers out there. I did find another one in BIP, so maybe so.
As a last ditch attempt before I write this author off, I was wondering if anyone here had a line on him? I only want to ask him what happened to the completed manuscript that he turned it. For example, did it ever get published under another name, or in a different form? If he has passed, Id appreciate some contact info to the estate's administrator. If that is too much, perhaps someone could pass my contact to either Prosser or his estate's administrator, and they can decide if they want to talk to me.
Any help is much appreciated.
