Win Scott Eckert holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a Juris Doctorate. In 1997, he posted the first site on the Internet devoted to expanding Philip Jose Farmer's concept of the Wold Newton Family. He has recently served as an expert consultant on crossovers involving characters from pulp fiction and Victorian literature for a lawsuit concerning a major motion picture.
Win is the editor of and contributor to
Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (MonkeyBrain Books, 2005), a 2007 Locus Awards finalist. He has written pulp tales for a yearly anthology of Wold-Newtonish stories,
Tales of the Shadowmen volumes 1-4 (Black Coat Press, 2005-2008), mostly centered on the adventures of Doc Ardan, a French version of Doc Savage. He has also written stories for
Lance Star-Sky Ranger (Wild Cat Books, 2006) and the upcoming
The Avenger Chronicles and
Captain Midnight: Declassified (both from Moonstone Books, 2008). He is a regular contributor of Wold Newton essays and stories to
Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip Jose Farmer, and he was honored to contribute the Foreword to the new 2006 edition of Philip Jose Farmer's seminal "fictional biography,"
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (Bison Books, 2006). Win's latest book is
Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World, coming in 2009 from MonkeyBrain Books.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)