Wheeler, Francis
Entry updated 13 June 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1904-1969) UK author, mostly of thrillers, though as Francis Leslie Wheeler he published several volumes of popular Christian theology. His Sylvanian Adventure (1939) has some sf interest as a Ruritanian tale set in a hidden, heavily forested kingdom dangerously close to the outbreak of World War Two. [JC]
Frank Leslie Wheeler [adopted the name Francis in or before 1931]
born Southampton, Hampshire: 1904
died Aldershot, Hampshire: 1969
works (selected)
- Sylvanian Adventure (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1939) [hb/]
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