Forgot the name of a writer

[rhd]

So, you know the kind of writing or movie that's so bad it just becomes art? I remember reading about a high fantasy story about twenty years ago written by a teenage boy that somehow got out and was circulated in the seventies or eighties and widely ridiculed, so much so that people challenged each other to keep a straight face while reading it to an audience. The boy was very hurt and when he grew up said the criticism was unfair because he was just a teenager when he wrote it. (He eventually passed away).There's a wiki page. I don't know why I started thinking about it again and it won't leave me alone. Does anyone older than the internet remember?

 

[Orc Knight]

You are talking about The Eye of Argon.

 

[rhd]

Gosh, thanks, it was killing me not to know.

 

[pmmg]

If it bothered the author that much, I am willing to forget it.

 

[Jackarandajam]

The boy was very hurt and when he grew up said the criticism was unfair because he was just a teenager when he wrote it.

Just checking out the wiki article, the author essentially says in an interview "yeah yeah, BUT I trad published a complete story at 16. Suck it."
Love that.