Chester, William L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1907-1971) US author whose various occupations included bank clerk, realtor and hospital administrator. He is known for his 1930s Blue Book magazine series about Kioga, a Tarzan-like white child raised on a vast Island Lost World within the Arctic Circle, somewhere in northern Siberia but heated by thermal springs and unknown currents, from which he escapes into the company of bears and Mika, a snow-lion: Hawk of the Wilderness (April-October 1935 Blue Book; 1936), filmed as Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), as a 12-part serial directed by John English and William Witney, and re-edited for television as Lost Island of Kioga (1966); Kioga of the Wilderness (April-October 1936 Blue Book; 1976); One Against a Wilderness (March-August 1937 Blue Book; coll of linked stories 1977) and Kioga of the Unknown Land (March-August 1938 Blue Book; 1978). [JC]
William Lester Chester
born New York: 7 January 1907
died Briarcliff Manor, New York: 9 October 1971
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series
Kioga
- Hawk of the Wilderness (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936) [first appeared April-October 1935 Blue Book: Kioga: hb/Herbert Morton Stoops]
- Kioga of the Wilderness (New York: DAW Books, 1976) [first appeared April-October 1936 Blue Book: Kioga: pb/John Hamberger]
- One Against a Wilderness (New York: DAW Books, 1977) [coll of linked stories: first appeared March-August 1937 Blue Book: Kioga: pb/Richard Hescox]
- Kioga of the Unknown Land (New York: DAW Books, 1978) [first appeared March-August 1938 Blue Book: Kioga: pb/Richard Hescox]
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