Joe Sanders

Joe Sanders (Joseph L. Sanders) was an American literary critic and professor of English. Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, he studied at DePauw University, Claremont Graduate School and Indiana University, and taught at Indiana University and Moorhead State College before joining Lakeland Community College in Ohio in 1972, retiring as professor emeritus in 2001. A specialist in science fiction, he served as president of the Science Fiction Research Association and received its Thomas D. Clareson Award for service in 2003. He wrote on E. E. Doc Smith and Roger Zelazny, and completed The Heritage of Heinlein after the death of its co-author Thomas D. Clareson.