Carlsen, Ruth Christoffer
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1918-2006) US author in whose sf novel for Young Adult readers, Half-Past Tomorrow (1973), an adolescent boy discovers, after his head is damaged in an accident, that he has developed the power of Precognition, which allows him to read tomorrow's newspapers. [JC]
Ruth Christoffer Carlsen
born Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 21 February 1918
died Iowa City, Iowa: 5 July 2006
works (highly selected)
- Half-Past Tomorrow (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1973) [illus/hb/John Gretzer]
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