Ian T. Macauley was elected to The Lambs in 1991 as a Theatrical member.
Born in London in 1935, by 1940, he was living in New York. Macauley was active in science fiction fandom in the early 1950s and published the fanzine Cosmag beginning in March of 1951, which became Asfo. He also belonged to “Fanvariety Enterprises.” Macauley went on to spend several years as the London correspondent of Electronic News before going to work for the New York Times in 1963. He wrote about rocketry and electronics and edited the Science Today section. In 1991 he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize with a team for the newspaper for reporting on the collapse of Communism.
In 1998, he edited the Arthur C. Clarke essay collection Greetings Carbon-Based Bipeds. Clarke dedicated the novel Islands in the Sky to Macauley, and Macauley surprised Clarke by attending his investiture as a CBE at Buckingham Palace in 1989.
His name, along with several thousand other space enthusiasts, landed on Mars in the Pathfinder mission in 1997.
Ian Macauley died on June 3, 2012.