Author Ralph A. Sperry, Jr., died on 6 April 2007. He prepared the following obituary, originally posted on SFWA’s web site:
Ralph Addison Sperry, writer and science fiction novelist, died of lung cancer 6 April at home, surrounded by friends. His entire body of work and correspondence, including short-story collections, mainstream and SF novels (Status Quotient: The Carrier, Avon Books 1981), is now archived in The John Hay Library at Brown University.
Born in Providence in 1944, Sperry was graduated from Mount Hermon, Purdue, and was a Master’s candidate at Brown. A member of SFWA, he was also a Mensan, a Clio gold winner in advertising, a newspaper columnist and a soybean farmer. No funeral. His ashes will be interred on La Digue in The Seychelles, the place he loved most in his world-wide travels.
A special edition of his My Town: Portsmouth Stories and Brazilian Stories will be published, with photographs and illustrations by his many friends.