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Schwarz-Bart, André
(1928-2006) French author, married to Simone Schwarz-Bart; his parents were murdered by the Nazis in World War Two, and he subsequently joined the Resistance; his writing career was dominated by these experiences, his most famous novel being Le Dernier des Justes (1959; trans Stephen Becker as The Last of the Just 1960), a fantasy following over eight centuries the lives of the "Just Men" of ...
Keith, Brandon
(? - ) US author, perhaps pseudonymous, of three 1960s Ties: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the Affair of the Gentle Saboteur (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the Affair of the Gunrunners' Gold (1967), both tied to the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968), and The Green Hornet: The Case of the Disappearing Doctor ...
Lovelace, Delos W
(1894-1967) US author whose King Kong: Conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper: Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace (1932), which novelizes the original King Kong (1933), is one of the first American film Ties of genuine sf interest. The later magazine serialization King Kong (February-March 1933 Mystery) was, however, bylined Edgar Wallace. [JC/DRL] ...
Easton, Thomas A
(1944- ) US critic, author and biology teacher (he holds a PhD in theoretical biology) who is best known for the Reference Library book-review column he wrote for Analog from 1979 to 2008, where he covered a wide range of titles with strict fairness, though he was not often granted the room to delve deep; a selection of 250 individual reviews from the 1980s and 1990s was assembled as Periodic Stars (coll 1997). His first ...
Hardy, David A
(1936- ) UK artist and illustrator, known at least as much for his astronomical and space-exploration paintings, done in the accurate tradition of Chesley Bonestell, as for his sf work. Hardy is essentially a self-taught artist, though he attended the Margaret Street College of Art in Birmingham circa 1960 on day release from his illustration work for the chocolate manufacturer Cadbury, during which employment he honed his ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...