Rudy Rucker: Difference between revisions

Rucker was born and raised in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], son of Embry Cobb Rucker Sr (October 1, 1914 - August 1, 1994), who ran a small furniture-manufacture company and later became an Episcopal priest and community activist, and Marianne (née von Bitter).<ref>{{cite webnews| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/08/02/obituaries/ded9b5c2-62a4-4f9b-8f00-66419749ed92| title = OBITUARIES - The Washington Post| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> The Rucker family were of Huguenot descent.<ref>http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/autobiography2004.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> Through his mother, he is a great-great-great-grandson of [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]].<ref>The Sound of Wonder: Interviews from "The Science Fiction Radio Show" vol. 1, Daryl Lane et al, Oryx Press, 1985, p. 169</ref><ref>Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions, Christopher G. White, Harvard University Press, 2018, p. 290</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Rudyrecker.com|url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/vonbittertreelarge.pdf|title=Family tree of Rucker's mother's brother, Rudolf von Bitter}}</ref>