Noble, Vernon
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1908-1987) UK journalist, broadcaster and author whose Children's SF novel, Cloud Island: A Mystery of the Sky (1949), features a cloud so firm it can be walked upon. The eponymous Mad Scientist in The Case of the Missing Professor (1952) seems to have discovered the secret of Rejuvenation. [JC]
Wilfred Vernon Noble
born Halifax, West Yorkshire: 29 August 1908
died 12 December 1987
works (highly selected)
- Cloud Island: A Mystery of the Sky (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1949) [illus/hb/S Drigin]
- The Case of the Missing Professor (London: George G Harrap, 1952) [illus/hb/Isabel Veevers]
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