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Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956, before becoming a beatnik coffee house poet in Greenwich Village and San Francisco"s North Beach.
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Chester Anderson
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As a poet, he wrote under the name C.V.J. Anderson and edited the little magazines Beatitude and Underhound. In journalism, he specialized in rock and roll. He also wrote science fiction, due in part to the influence of Michael Kurland.
Anderson"s The Butterfly Kid is the first part of what is called the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Kurland writing the second book (The Unicorn Girl) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written by T.A. Waters.
The novel was nominated for the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel. lieutenant, and his few other genre works are associated with New Wave science fiction.
He was also a gifted musician, played two part inventions with two recorders simultaneously, played duets with Laurence M. Janifer at the Cafe Rienzi. He subsequently moved to San Francisco during the Summer of Love and, along with Claude Hayward, was one of the founders of the Communications Company (ComCo), the "publishing arm" of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers, having bought a mimeograph with his second royalty check from Butterfly Kid.
After his stint with Crawadaddy! he was connected for a brief period with the underground newspaper Tuesday"s Child and with Peace Press, a small movement print shop in Los Los Angeles
He published two works, both of them thinly-disguised memoirs (one under the pseudonym John Valentine) with Paul Williams"s Entwhistle Books. Prior to his death in 1991, he lived for a number of years in Mendocino, California, where he collaborated with local artist Charles Marchant Stevenson on his book Fox and Hare: The Story of a Friday Evening. A number of science fiction and publishing personalities, including Norman Spinrad and Lou Stathis, posed on location for the illustrations in this book, which attempted to recreate a particular evening in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.
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