Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest James Ackerman  (Nuwamba 24, 1916 - Disamba 4, 2008) ya kasance editan mujallar Amurka; Marubucin almara na kimiyya, kuma wakilin wallafe-wallafen; wanda ya kafa almara na kimiyyar fiction; babban gwani a kan almara na science, tsoro, da fina-finai na fantasy;  shahararren mai ba da shawara game da harshen Esperanto; kuma daya daga cikin masu tara littattafai masu yawa a duniya na nau'i da abubuwan tunawa da fim. Ya kasance a Los Angeles, California .

A matsayinsa na wakilin wallafe-wallafen, ya wakilci marubutan almara na kimiyya kamar Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt, Curt Siodmak, da L. Ron Hubbard.  Fiye da shekaru 70, ya kasance daya daga cikin masu magana da yawun fiction na kimiyya da masu tallatawa. Shi ne editan da ya kafa kuma babban marubucin mujallar Amurka Famous Monsters of Filmland, wanda Warren Publishing ya buga. Ya kirkiro halin Vampirella, wanda ya samo asali ne daga fim din Jane Fonda na 1968 Barbarella .  Additional Webcitation archive.

Ackerman ya kuma yi fim daga shekarun 1950 zuwa karni na 21. Ya bayyana a cikin shirye-shirye da yawa da suka shafi wannan lokacin a cikin al'adun gargajiya, kamar Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (wanda Michael R. MacDonald ya jagoranta kuma Ian Johnston ya rubuta), wanda aka fara a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Masar a watan Maris na shekara ta 2009, a lokacin harajin Forrest J J Ackermann; The Ackermonster Chronicles!  (wani shirin 2012 game da Ackerman na marubuci da mai shirya fina-finai Jason V. Brock); da Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man, game da marigayi marubuci Charles Beaumond, tsohon abokin ciniki na The Ackerman Agency . 

 Shekaru na farko 
An haifi Ackerman Forrest James Ackerman (ko da yake ya kira kansa daga farkon shekarun 1930 zuwa gaba a matsayin "Forrest J Ackerman" ba tare da wani lokaci ba bayan farkon tsakiya), a ranar 24 ga Nuwamba, 1916,  a Los Angeles, zuwa Carroll Cridland (née Wyman; 1883-1977)  da William Schilling Ackerman (1892-1951). 

Mahaifinsa, William, babban masanin lissafi kuma mataimakin mataimakin shugaban da ke kula da sufuri na Kamfanin Man Fetur  ya fito ne daga New York kuma mahaifiyarsa (ɗan masanin gine-gine George Wyman) ta fito ne daga Ohio; ta girme mijinta da shekaru tara.

Ackerman ya halarci Jami'ar California, Berkeley, a lokacin shekara ta 1934-1935; bayan haka, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai nunawa fina-finai kuma a wasu ayyuka tare da abokai. A ranar 15 ga watan Agusta, 1942, ya shiga cikin Sojojin Amurka,   inda ya hau matsayin sajan ma'aikata kafin a sallame shi da mutunci a shekarar 1945. Ya shafe dukkan lokacinsa yana aiki a Fort MacArthur a unguwar San Pedro ta Los Angeles, daga ƙarshe ya zama editan jaridar.

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