Thomson, A A M
Entry updated 21 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1894-1968) UK author, who in later life became well-known as a cricket columnist, writing as A A Thomson, active from around 1920; he was in active service during World War One. Thomson is of some interest for an early novel, seemingly his only fiction using all three initials, The World of Billiam Wissold (1927), a Parody of the club-bore style of H G Wells's The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle (1926 3vols), which incorporates a modestly sympathetic Satire of its promulgation of the Open Conspiracy and its proleptic visions of a World State. Thomson was made an MBE in 1966. [JC]
Arthur Alexander Malcolm Thomson
born Harrogate, Yorkshire: 7 April 1894
died London: 2 June 1968
works (highly selected)
- The World of Billiam Wissold (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1927) [hb/Leonard Dove]
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