![]() In 1916 Fort inherited a share of his grandfather's estate, and the following year, after his brother's death, he inherited that share. ![]() He decided that science consisted of believers and cranks, and out of his skepticism he said whimsically that he would be a crank. He read widely, took thousands of notes on a myriad of subjects that he discovered in encyclopedias and scientific materials while frequenting the New York Public Library, trying to hammer out a personal philosophy. He also started a number of large-scale novels, only one of which was ever published, The Outcast Manufacturers (1909). He sold feature stories to the New York press, then began to write humorous short stories. ![]() They lived in poverty while Fort took various nondescript jobs and worked on his writing. His vast store of travel impressions over 30,000 miles laid the foundation for his later preoccupation with accumulating and analyzing data.īack in New York he married an English woman named Anna Filing on October 26, 1896. Two years later he decided to see the world and spent two years traveling, from New York to New Orleans, Nova Scotia, England, Scotland, Wales, and South Africa. Instead he became a journalist at age 17. ![]() Fort was born on August 9, 1874, in Albany, New York. He was the archenemy of dogmatic science. American journalist, writer, and explorer of scientific anomalies. ![]()
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