I am posting this email from a friend who knew Fred from SF Conventions and who accompanied him on, I believe, his last trip to Lawrence KS.
“He has been a friend for over 30 years, and I’m going to miss him. Fred and I are both from Red Bank (NJ). When I was a kid. all his books that I borrowed from the library said “Gift of the author” inside the cover.
She was in San Antonio this weekend at, I believe a Jim Gunn award dinner.
/johnny