Biography
Nate Bucklin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 11, 1949. A self-described "Foreign Service brat", he lived part of his childhood in South America. While living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he received a guitar and music lessons for his eighth birthday. Nate made his stage debut at age 9, on February 7, 1959, at a private club in Casilda, Santa Fe province, Argentina, as an intermission act for El Conjunto Folklorico Infantil Albor Gaucho. This was followed by several appearances in variety shows and at the social club Martin Fierro, named for the epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández.
Nate's family moved back to the United States in 1960. He lived on Vashon Island, Washington, until just after his 17th birthday, when he moved to Minnesota to attend Macalester College in Saint Paul. Except for three years during which Nate lived in Los Angeles, he has made his home in Minnesota ever since.
Nate spent four years as a member of the National Fantasy Fan Federation or N3F, a correspondence club for science fiction and fantasy fans; during this stretch, his correspondents included Greg Shaw, Walter Breen, and Piers Anthony.
He inadvertently triggered the founding of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (Minn-stf) in 1966. A gathering to welcome Nate to the Twin Cities was so successful that the attendees decided to repeat it in two weeks. After several such meetings, the meeting was called to order and the club was named, with regular Saturday meetings that have continued ever since.
In the early 1970s he was a key contributor to MinniAPA, a regularly published collective apazine.
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