Writing
Penn's writing, mostly focused on the Zodiac case, was largely published in the The Ecphorizer, the newsletter of the San Francisco chapter of Mensa International, which had a peak readership of 700 and was published between 1981 and 1995 A 1972 piece he wrote while attending UC Berkeley, Gottfried von Strassburg and the Invisible Art was published in the peer-reviewed journal of Germanic studies Colloquia Germanica. The piece is a reflection on the legend of Tristan, a 12th century hero of Celtic folklore.
Penn says his father, Hugh Scott Penn, who had been a U.S. Army cryptographer during World War II, introduced him to the Zodiac case while he was working for the California Department of Justice.
His self-published book Times 17: The Amazing Story of the Zodiac Murders in California and Massachusetts, 1966-1981 was released in 1987.
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