Bio:Dian Girard
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Dian Girard was an active fan in West Coast fandom, especially during the 1960's and '70's. She was editor of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society newsletter during 1962-63 . She was married to Bruce Pelz (hence Dian Pelz, or Diane Girard Pelz), c. 1963-4 , with whom she had one daughter, Cecy . Bruce and Dian were frequent participants (and organizers?) in West Coast fan conventions .
Dian and Bruce had an amicable divorce in 1970, with a divorce party that partly inspired Larry Niven’s story What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers, published in 1971 . Later Dian married Charles A. Crayne , an early writer on computers, with whom she published a (non-genre) book on computer assembly programming.
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1. ^ 1960's Fan History Outline.
2. ^ History of the game of Diplomacy.
3. ^ Fan encyclopedia article on Bruce Pelz.
4. ^ Dian as Thuvia Maid of Mars.
5. ^ Dian as Thuvia Maid of Mars.
6. ^ Inferred from various sources, such as the SF Fancyclopedia.