Editing Wickliffe Draper (section)

==Later life==

Considered reclusive,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9SqGDAAAQBAJ ''Racial Science and British Society'', 1930-62 by G. Schaffer, Springer, 2008, pages 142–3. Retrieved October 8, 2020.] {{isbn|9780230582446}}</ref> Draper maintained a low profile throughout his life, as did the Pioneer Fund. When Draper died in 1972 from [[prostate cancer]], he bequeathed $1.4 million to the Pioneer Fund.

Draper's work has become more controversial since the publication of ''[[The Bell Curve]]'' (1994), because the Pioneer Fund financially sponsored much of the research reported in the book. The publication of ''The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism'' (1994) by Stefan Kühl<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism |last=Kühl |first=Stefan |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-514978-4}}
</ref> resulted in further publicity for Draper and the Fund.