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T.A. Waters

Born: February 27, 1938
Chillicothe, Ohio
Died: August 07, 1998 (age 60)
Hollywood, California

T.A. Waters (1938-1998), born in the United States, was a professional magician, mentalist and magic author.

Biography
T. A., standing for Thomas Alan, wrote several booklets on mentalism which were later assembled into his big book Mind, Myth & Magick (1993).

He was once the librarian at the Magic Castle and was also noted for his Any Card at Any Number routine.[1][2]

Books
Love that Spy! (1968)
The Probability Pad (1970)
Centerforce (1974)
New Thoughts on Old (1980)
Cerberus (1981)
Trionic (1981)
Omnimancy (1981)
Grymwyr (1982)
Deckalogue (1982)
Cardiact (1984)
Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians (1988)
Mind, Myth and Magick (1993)

References
↑ Cover Genii Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 12, October 1993, AN INTRAVIEW with T.A. WATERS, page 760
↑ Obit Genii 1998 September
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The Linking Ring, Vol. 78, No. 9, September 1998, MEMOIRS Of A Magician’s Ghost, by John Booth - CHAPTER 330, T.A. Waters: Mentalist, Novelist and Psychologist, page 91, More Late News, page 124
The Linking Ring, Vol. 78, No. 10, October 1998, Broken Wand, T.A. Waters, page 157
T A Waters bibliography
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T. A. Waters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born:
Thomas Alan Waters
1938, Columbus, Ohio

Died:
1998 (aged 59–60)


Cause of death:
natural causes

Nationality:
American

Occupation:
professional author and mentalist

Known for:
magic

Thomas Alan Waters (also known as T.A. Waters) (1938–1998) was an American magician, writer about magic, and science fiction author.

Contents
1 History
2 Published works
3 External links
4 References


History

Born to Thurston Alan Waters and Pauline Ruth (Kunkle) Waters, T. A. Waters was a professional magician and magic author. He wrote several booklets on mentalism and bizarre magic which were later reassembled in his big book Mind, Myth & Magick (1993).[1] At one point, he was the librarian at the Magic Castle, in Los Angeles. He was a founding member of The Delta Group, a private mentalism group with many notable members[citation needed] that was formed in the Los Angeles area.[citation needed] As a mentalist, he was noted for his Any Card at Any Number routine.

Waters appears (thinly veiled as "Sir Thomas Leseaux", an expert on theoretical magic) as a character in the Lord Darcy fantasy series by Randall Garrett and in Michael Kurland's The Unicorn Girl (1969) (in which he also appears, even more thinly veiled, as "Tom Waters"). He himself wrote The Probability Pad (1970), a sequel to The Unicorn Girl; these two novels, together with Chester Anderson's earlier The Butterfly Kid (1967), make up the collaborative Greenwich Village Trilogy.

Published works
Love that Spy! (1968)
"The Blackwood Cult" (1968) (Lancer Books) (Magnum Books 73769)
The Probability Pad (1970) (the third volume in the Greenwich Village Trilogy)
Psychologistics (1971)
Centerforce (1974)
Deckalogue (1982)
Cardiact (1984)
The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians (1988)
Mind, Myth & Magick (1993)

External links
See more about T. A. Waters at MagicPedia, the free online Magic encyclopedia.
T A Waters bibliography
T A Waters magic articles
T. A. Waters at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database