Donna Kossy
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Donna J. Kossy (born May 18, 1957) is a US writer, zine publisher, and online used book dealer based in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the history of "forgotten, discredited and extreme ideas",[2] which she calls "crackpotology and kookology",[2] she is better known for her books Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief (1994, featuring the first biography of Francis E. Dec) and Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes (2001). Kossy was also the founder and curator of the Kooks Museum (1996–1999, online), and the editor-publisher of the magazine Book Happy (1997–2002, about "weird and obscure books"[3]).
Donna Kossy | |
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Born | Donna Jean Kossy[1] 1957 (age 66–67) |
Occupation | Writer, folklorist |
Citizenship | United States |
Period | since 1984 (zine) since 1994 (book) |
Subject | weird ideas and beliefs, "kooks", pseudoscience, fringe science, conspiracy theory, UFO, obscure books |
Notable works | Kooks (1994) Strange Creations (2001) |
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Described by Wired as "an expert on kooks [who] has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects",[4] Kossy wrote books reviewed in publications ranging from Fortean Times to New Scientist. Journalist Jonathan Vankin named her "the unchallenged authority on, well, kooks",[5] and writer Bruce Sterling noted that she "boldly blazes new trails in the vast intellectual wilderness of American writers, thinkers and philosophers who were or are completely nuts".[6]