Irvine, Leigh H
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1863-1942) US journalist, editor and author, most prominently of several nonfiction books on California; of sf interest are An Affair in the South Seas: A Story of Romantic Adventure (1901), in which a drifter tells of his life in a Utopian colony, an Island where intermarriage and democracy flourish; and Legends of the Ozorans: Or, Love Tales of Long Ago (coll 1931 chap), which describes a Lost Race without much clarity. [JC]
Leigh Hadley Irvine
born Oregon, Missouri: 28 November 1863
died San Francisco, California: 17 June 1942
works
- An Affair in the South Seas: A Story of Romantic Adventure (San Francisco, California: Payot, Upham and Co, 1901) [hb/]
- Legends of the Ozorans: Or, Love Tales of Long Ago (Pismo Beach, California: Pismo Times, 1931) [coll: chap: pb/]
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