Bell, William Dixon
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1865-1951) US author of Young Adult adventure novels, including The Lost Aviators: A Story of Adventure (1924), a Lost Race tale in which a young aviator (see Airplane Boys) discovers a Mayan civilization in Honduras; The Moon Colony (1937), in which the protagonists, adventurously travelling to the Moon, find there a Planetary Romance-style colony, complete with giant grasshoppers which can be ridden like horses; The Sacred Scimiter (1938), a fantasy set in Arabia; and The Secret of Tibet (1938), which is also a Lost Race tale featuring Airplane Boys. [JC]
William Dixon Bell
born Texas: 10 May 1865
died Los Angeles, California: 8 December 1951
works
- The Lost Aviators: A Story of Adventure (Boston, Massachusetts: Four Seas Company, 1924) [hb/]
- The Moon Colony (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1937) [hb/]
- The Sacred Scimiter (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1938) [hb/]
- The Secret of Tibet (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1938) [hb/]
links
previous versions of this entry