Andrew Porter tells us of the death of Anne Jordan last month. He also offers this photo he took of her at ConStellation, the 1983 World SF Convention, where she accepted the Hugo Award for Edward L. Ferman as Best Editor. Photo by & Copyright © 2013 Andrew Porter:

Anne Devereaux Wilson Jordan Crouse, 69, of Mansfield Center, Connecticut died February 2nd, 2013 after battling lung cancer. Anne Jordan was an editor for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for ten years, from 1979-1989. She wrote eleven books under her own name and worked as the ghost writer for an adult nonfiction book on black history as well as on nine adolescent nonfiction books.

She reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review, and published poetry in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Star*Line, the magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

She was a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A. and M.A), where in 1968, she received the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in poetry and short stories. She is best known for founding the Children’s Literature Association in 1973 and served as its executive Secretary/Treasurer as well as Director of the Annual Conference in Children’s Literature until 1976.  In 1992, she was the first recipient of the “Anne Devereaux Jordan Award,” an award established in her honor and now given annually by The Children’s Literature Association for outstanding contributions to the field of children’s literature.

Anne Jordan spent much of her career teaching with positions at Eastern Connecticut State University, Wesleyan University, Central Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford and Western Michigan University.  From 1994 to 1998, she was a senior editor of TALL (Teaching and Learning Literature for Children and Young Adults) for which she also wrote two bimonthly columns. She has also served as a literary consultant with a number of legal firms.

She is survived by one child, David Frederic Crouse of Alexandria, Virginia. For an online memorial guestbook, please visit www.potterfuneralhome.com.