Ballou, William Hosea
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1857-1937) US author of several mild satires about social life in the American upper classes. His three novels of some genre interest are A Ride on a Cyclone (1889); The Bachelor Girl: A Novel of the 1400 (1890), which features a very fast motorized Balloon plus a romance; and The Upper Ten: A Novel of the Snobocracy (1890), in which a submarine Lost Race of mermen (see Under the Sea) threatens the world above. [JC]
William Hosea Ballou
born Hannibal, New York: 30 September 1857
died December 1937
works
- A Ride on a Cyclone (Chicago, Illinois: Belford, Clarke, 1889) [hb/]
- The Bachelor Girl: A Novel of the 1400 (New York: J W Lovell, 1890) [hb/]
- The Upper Ten: A Novel of the Snobocracy (New York: United States Book Co, 1890) [in the Lovell's American Novelists series: illus/H Clay Coultaus: pb/]
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