Charles Fort was born on 6 August 1874 in Albany, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Portarë (2009). He was married to Anna Filian. He died on 3 May 1932 in New York City, New York, USA.
Tiffany Thayer founded The Fortean Society to promote Fort's ideas regarding anomalous phenomena; Theodore Dreiser was its first president. Colin Wilson has denounced Fort as "a patron of cranks": "Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.".
