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Richard Plotz
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Richard Plotz is an American science fiction fan and physician]]. Tolkien fandom Plotz helped found the Tolkien Society of America in 1965 at the age of 17. Starting with a few fellow enthusiasts who met at the Alma Mater statue of Columbia University in New York, it rapidly grew nationally and internationally to over 2,000 members. When Plotz was a Harvard freshman he was sent by Seventeen magazine to write an interview with J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the few he ever granted. He continued to correspond with Tolkien, and was the recipient of a chart now called the "Plotz Declension" giving the declension of two nouns in Classical (or Book) Quenya that Tolkien sent in response to a query by Plotz.. Following his graduation from Harvard, Plotz did graduate work in biochemistry and received his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He has become a nationally known expert in gynecologic cytopathology. He is also a genealogist and is a member of the Operations Committee of JewishGen, the Internet affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. A native of Brooklyn, Plotz now lives in Providence, Rhode Island and works in Boston. 
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