Morton, H V
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1892-1979) UK journalist from 1910 and author, in active service during World War One, in South Africa from 1947; best known for his many travel books, beginning with The Heart of London (1926). He is of sf interest for I, James Blunt (1942 chap), a Hitler Wins tale set in the near Near Future, and comprising the eponym's extremely grim diary in which he recounts the consequences of the German Invasion of England. [JC]
Henry Canova Vollam Morton
born Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire: 26 July 1892
died South Africa: 18 June 1979
works
- I, James Blunt (London: Methuen and Co, 1942) [pb/nonpictorial]
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