Editing Forrest J Ackerman (section)

==Personal life==
Ackerman had one sibling, a younger brother, Alden Lorraine Ackerman, who was killed at the [[Battle of the Bulge]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alden Lorraine Ackerman: Private First Class from California, World War II Casualty |url=https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=18276 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202045101/https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=18276 |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |access-date=February 2, 2022 |website=www.honorstates.org}}</ref>

Ackerman was married to a German-born teacher and translator, Mathilda Wahrman (1912–1990), whom he met in the early 1950s while she was working in a book store he happened to visit. He eventually dubbed her "Wendayne" or, less formally, "Wendy", by which name she became most generally known within SF and film fandoms, after the character in ''[[Peter Pan]]'', his favorite fantasy.<ref name=time/> Although they went through a period of separation during the late 1950s and early 1960s, they remained officially married until her death: she suffered serious internal injuries when she was violently mugged while visiting Italy in 1990 and irreparable damage to her kidneys led to her death. By choice, they had no children of their own, but Wahrman did have a son by an earlier marriage, Michael Porges, who did not get along with Ackerman and would not live in Ackerman's home.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Ackerman was fluent in the [[international auxiliary language|international language]] [[Esperanto]], and claimed to have walked down [[Hollywood Boulevard]] arm-in-arm with [[Leo G. Carroll]] singing ''[[La Espero]]'', the hymn of Esperanto.<ref name="4forry.best.vwh.net" />

Ackerman also received a [[diploma]] from [[Sequoia University]], an [[educational accreditation|unaccredited]] [[higher education]] institution in Los Angeles, California, in April 1969, which named him a Fellow of the Sequoia Research Institute.<ref>{{cite web|title=Forrest J Ackerman Diploma|url=https://www.icollector.com/Forrest-J-Ackerman-Diploma_i11311921 |website=icollector.com|access-date=August 23, 2019}}</ref>

Ackerman was an atheist at age 15,<ref>"My well-meaning parents subjected me to 7 different Sunday Schools before I finally rebelled." Christopher M. O'Brien, ''The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Film Appearances, Speeches and Other Works, with a Concise Biography'' (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2012), 17. {{ISBN|9780786449842}}</ref> but did not emphasize that fact in his public life and welcomed people of all faiths, as well as no faith, into his home and personal circle equally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Insight &#124; THE ACKERMAN ENIGMA: The Strange Case of Forrest J. Ackerman by Paul Davids &#124; unknowncountry |url=https://www.unknowncountry.com/insight/ackerman-enigma-strange-case-forrest-j-ackerman-paul-davids |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220081816/http://www.unknowncountry.com/insight/ackerman-enigma-strange-case-forrest-j-ackerman-paul-davids |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |access-date=April 21, 2019 |website=www.unknowncountry.com}}</ref>

In 2018, Vincent Price biographer Lucy Chase Williams wrote that Ackerman sexually harassed her and other women over the course of decades despite "written and verbal demands to cease", alleging that he "forced wet kisses" on her, groped her, and mailed her pornography and personal fantasies in which he wanted to "hurt and abuse" her.<ref name="schelly">{{cite book |first=Bill |last=Schelly |date=2019 |title=James Warren, Empire of Monsters |location=Seattle, Washington |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |pages=339–340 |isbn=9781683961475}}</ref>