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Craigie, David

Entry updated 9 September 2024. Tagged: Artist, Author.

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Pseudonym for her written work of theatre costume designer, illustrator and author Dorothy Glover (1901-1971), partner of Graham Greene between 1939 and 1948. As Dorothy Craigie, she wrote numerous stories for younger children, from Summersalts Circus (1947) to Nicky and Nigger Join the Circus (1960); and illustrated children's books, including the four in the genre by Greene, with whom she wrote Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the Collection Made by Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover (1966).

As David Craigie, she wrote two sf novels with young protagonists. In The Voyage of the Luna 1 (1948), which she illustrated under her real name, the two children of famous explorers more or less hijack a Moon-bound rocket and encounter various strange species there. Dark Atlantis (1951), a Lost Race tale, a bathysphere takes its protagonist into abyssal depths Under the Sea, and thence into the Hollow Earth, where Atlantis is discovered, inhabited by Atlanteans who have suffered Devolution, plus a race of intelligent reptiles. [JC]

Dorothy Mary Glover

born London: 17 May 1901

died Crowborough, East Sussex: 23 November 1971

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