Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait

Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1859-1946) US author of Yermah the Dorado (1897 as by Frona Eunice Wait; rev vt Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race 1913 under her full name), which is set in the ninth millennium BCE, at a time when the Aryan empire of Atlantis governs a Utopia on the site of what will eventually become San Francisco; it is not technically a Lost Race tale. The congested plot, much concerned with Religions of every stripe, ends in a volcanic eruption. [JC]

Frona Eunice Wait Colburn

born California: 1859

died 1946

works

• Yermah the Dorado (San Francisco, California: William Doxey, 1897) [hb/]
  • Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race (New York: The Alice Harriman Co, 1913) [rev vt of the above: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Stories of El Dorado (San Francisco, California: Sunset Press, 1904) [coll: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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