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Faber, Geoffrey

Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1889-1961) UK publisher, in active service during World War One, founder of the London firm which bears his name; author of an in effect self-published Lost Race novel, Elnovia: An Entertainment for Novel-Readers (1925), a Scientific Romance in which the eponymous inhabited flying Island is discovered by an advanced aeroplane (see Transportation). The Utopian pretensions of the islanders are treated mockingly. [JC]

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber

born College Grounds, Malvern, Oxfordshire: 23 August 1889

died Midhurst, Sussex: 31 March 1961

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