Erskine, Douglas
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of Scots-descended Canadian lawyer John Stuart Buchan (1852-1927). It has implausibly been suggested that Erskine was a pseudonym of John Buchan – perhaps because his son's full name was John Norman Stuart Buchan (1911-1996). Erskine's novel – A Bit of Atlantis (1900) – lacks any resemblance to Buchan's own work of the time; in this tale, a Scottish Canadian inventor, who descends from lost Atlanteans, is shipwrecked on a present-day Island, the site of Atlantis – a typical Lost World which soon sinks. [JC]
John Stuart Buchan
born Argenteuil, Quebec: 28 October 1852
died Montreal, Quebec: 10 February 1927
works
- A Bit of Atlantis (Montreal, Quebec: A T Chapman, 1900) [hb/nonpictorial]
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