Malkus, Alida Sims
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Lyda Sims Malkus (1888-1976), usually of historical juveniles insubstantially tinged with fantasy; of sf interest is The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess (1930), a Lost Race tale set in southern Mexico; a vision of Mayan civilization is intensely and informatively conveyed. [JC]
Lyda Sims Malkus
born New York State: 19 September 1888
died Concord, Massachusetts: 27 September 1976
works (highly selected)
- The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1930) [illus/hb/Lowell Houser]
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