Walker, David
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1911-1992) Scottish-born soldier and author, permanently in Canada from 1948, naturalized in 1957; best known for sentimental evocations of Scottish spirit like Geordie (1950), later filmed. Winter of Madness (1964) is a Near-Future melodrama with spoof elements, involving a mysterious Invention, all told in a manner modestly evocative of John Buchan; and The Lord's Pink Ocean (1972) is a tale of Pollution and Disaster in which all but one of the world's oceans die when algae are Genetically Engineered to scavenge wastes poison the waters they scour. [JC]
Major David Harry Walker
born Dundee, Scotland: 9 February 1911
died St Andrew, New Brunswick: 5 March 1992
works
- Winter of Madness (London: Collins, 1964) [hb/Harry Toothill]
- The Lord's Pink Ocean (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972) [hb/William Finch]
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