Goldston, Robert C
Entry updated 19 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1927-1982) US author of crime fiction, also under the pseudonym James Stark; of fantasies such as his first novel, The Eighth Day (1956), dealing with miracles in a religious context; and of The Shore Dimly Seen (1963), in which the passengers and crew of a yacht at sea apprehend a nuclear Holocaust from a distance as they approach a seemingly deserted America.
This author should not be confused with the artist James Stark who created nine covers for Nebula Science Fiction 1956-1958.[JC]
Robert Conroy Goldston
born New York: 9 July 1927
died Palma de Mallorca, Spain: 15 January 1982
works
- The Eighth Day (New York: Rinehart, 1956) [hb/]
- The Catafalque (New York: Rinehart, 1957) [hb/]
- The Shore Dimly Seen (New York: Random House, 1963) [hb/]
- The Last of Lazarus (New York: Random House, 1966) [hb/]
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