Pat Lupoff

Patricia Enid Lupoff ( Loring; January 19, 1937 – October 18, 2018) was an American magazine editor and event organizer. She won the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine with co-editor Richard A. Lupoff of the fanzine Xero. Additionally, she won the 2011 Inkpot Award and the 2021 First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Fame Award.

Biography Patricia Enid Loring was born on January 19, 1937 in Manhattan. She was the daughter of Ruth and Benjamin Baxter Loring, a lawyer who later "went into the metal fabrication business and did very well with it." She attended Birch Wathen Lenox School.

She married Richard A. Lupoff in 1958, whom she had met on a blind date, after the latter got enough pay at Sperry Rand. They lived in Westchester County, then on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, then in Poughkeepsie, and eventually in Northern California. She and Richard won the 2021 First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Fame Award.

Outside of fandom, she was an employee at Cody's Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, California. Awards