Stanford, J K
Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1892-1971) UK civil servant, solider and author, in active service during World War One. Most of his fiction is humorous, including his first book, The Twelfth (1944 chap; vt The Twelfth and After: Being the Life and Death of George Hysteron-Proteron 1964), a spoofish fantasy whose hunter protagonist is turned into a bird, and organizes his new kin to avoid being shot. His sf Satire, Full Moon at Sweatenham: A Nightmare (1953), takes rather clumsy potshots at a decadent, ludicrous Near Future UK circa 1960; the welfare state is guyed. [JC]
Lieutenant-Colonel John Keith Stanford
born Aldringham, Suffolk: 29 April 1892
died Hartley Wespall, Hampshire: 24 September 1971
works
- The Twelfth (London: Faber and Faber, 1944) [chap: hb/V H Drummond]
- The Twelfth and After: Being the Life and Death of George Hysteron-Proteron (London: Faber and Faber, 1964) [rev vt of the above: hb/]
- Full Moon at Sweatenham: A Nightmare (London: Faber and Faber, 1953) [hb/V H Drummond]
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