Strickland, W P

Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1809-1884) US Methodist minister and author, who served as a chaplain in the American Civil War. His Lost Race tale, The Astrologer of Chaldea; Or, the Life of Faith (1855), locates its uplifting discoveries in ancient Babylonia. [JC]

William Peter Strickland

born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 17 August 1809

died Brooklyn [now New York]: 15 July 1884

works

• The Astrologer of Chaldea; Or, the Life of Faith (Cincinnati, Ohio: Jacob Ernst, 1855) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

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