Carnson, Maxwell
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1889-1973) UK minister and author, in active service during World War One; in USA in his later years. His Lost Race novel, Monkeys of Hai Tu (1927), is set in China, where a secret City is discovered, ruled by a "deity" and defended by an army of apes (see Apes as Human). Emily Farrar, searching for her lost fiancé in this mysterious region, enamours the deity, who proposes. She refuses. [JC/MA]
Robert Maxwell Carnson
born Thornton, Yorkshire: 29 January 1889
died Denver, Colorado: 1 June 1973
works
- Monkeys of Hai Tu (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1927) [hb/]
- The Lady of the Stone: A Romance of Yesterday, To-Day, and Tomorrow (Cape Town, South Africa: Clyde Publishing, 1930) with Colin Carnson [hb/]
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