Hagedorn, Hermann
Entry updated 3 June 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1882-1964) US biographer and poet, active from around 1915, who is of sf interest for The Bomb That Fell on America (1946 chap), a poem (see Poetry) constructed as a Prediction of the new world created in the course of the "Trinity" project at Los Alamos: the new bomb may bring about the End of the World: "God have mercy on America!" But the Voice of God is unrelenting: "'The world is sick,' said the Voice, 'for dearth of crucifixions'." [JC]
Hermann Hagedorn
born New York: 18 July 1882
died Santa Barbara, California: 27 July 1964
works (highly selected)
- The Bomb That Fell on America (Santa Barbara, California: Pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1946) [poem: chap: pb/]
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