Satchell, William
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1861-1942) UK-born farmer, publisher, journalist and author, in New Zealand from 1886; intermittently active as a poet and journalist from around 1880, sometimes as by Samuel Cliall White and other names not identified. Of his four novels, the least popular was The Elixir of Life (1907), an sf story in which Immortality is sought, and perhaps achieved, through the Invention of a disease-averting serum. [JC]
William Arthur Satchell
born London: 1 February 1861
died Auckland, New Zealand: 21 October 1942
works
- The Elixir of Life (London: Chapman and Hall, 1907) [hb/]
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