From Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America:
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach died Oct. 29 at 3:50 a.m. in the Evangelical Congregational Church Retirement Village in Myerstown, PA where he had resided since March 2001.
Born June 20, 1910 in Palm, Pennsylvania, Eshbach, grew up in Reading. He discovered science fiction at age 15 and began writing letters to the magazines, then his own stories. In 1929, the third story he wrote sold to Science Wonder Stories.
Continuing to write stories and articles, Lloyd briefly published two magazines in the early 1930s, Marvel Tales and The Galleon. In 1946 he founded Fantasy Press a small press which published the work of authors such as E. E. Smith, Jack Williamson, Robert Heinlein and John W. Campbell Jr.
From Locus Online:
He was best known as a publisher, having founded Fantasy Press in 1946, one of the earliest small presses that preserved in book form novels and stories first published in the early SF magazines, including works by A.E. van Vogt, John W. Campbell, L. Sprague de Camp, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and P. Schuyler Miller, as well as the first nonfiction book about science fiction, an anthology of essays titled Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing (1947) with contributions from Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Edward E. Smith Ph.D., and others.
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