Slocombe, George
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1894-1963) UK journalist whose first assignment was to report on the sinking of the Titanic in 1912; and author whose Near Future Dictator (1932), set in an imaginary European country, describes the rise of a tyranny there. Escape into the Past (1943) features an artist's wife who Timeslips irrevocably into the seventeenth century. [JC]
George Edward Slocombe
born Bristol, England: 8 March 1894
died Paris, France: 19 December 1963
works
- Dictator (London: Victor Gollancz, 1932) [hb/nonpictorial]
- Escape into the Past (London: George G Harrap and Co, 1943) [hb/Kay]
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