MacDonell, A G
Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1941) India-born Scottish author, in UK from childhood, deeply affected by his life and career by active service during World War One. He began his career as author with a series of thrillers as by Neil Gordon; one of these, The Professor's Poison (1928), a Near Future thriller, features the Invention of a new Weapon capable of gassing whole armies. From 1933, MacDonell wrote under his own name. In his Satirical Scientific Romance, Lords and Masters (1936), an industrial struggle between traditional steel manufacturers and the developers of a new metal escalates into a full-blown Future War involving the whole of Europe; by novel's end, a Patriotic Government is ruling the UK. [JC]
Archibald Gordon MacDonell
born Poona, India: 3 November 1895
died Oxford, Oxfordshire: 16 January 1941
works
- The Professor's Poison (London: Longmans and Co, 1928) as by Neil Gordon [hb/]
- Lords and Masters (London: Macmillan and Co, 1936) [hb/Eric Fraser]
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