Ward, Richard Heron
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1910-1969) UK actor, playwright, director, broadcaster and author, active from the early 1930s, some of whose nonfiction is of interest, including The Powys Brothers: A Study (1935), whose subjects include John Cowper Powys, and A Drug-Taker's Notes (1957) as R H Ward, a strongly analytic description of the effects of LSD use (see Drugs). He is of sf interest for The Sun Shall Rise (1935), set in a Near Future Britain under the yoke of a fascist Dystopia. [JC]
Richard Heron Ward
born Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire: 23 May 1910
died December 1969
works (selected)
- The Sun Shall Rise (London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935) [hb/]
nonfiction
- 1
- A Drug-Taker's Notes (London: Victor Gollancz, 1957) as R H Ward [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
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