Williams, Francis
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK journalist and author Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams (1903-1970); a working newspaperman from 1920; he was dismissed from his editorship of the London Daily Herald in 1940 for refusing to abate his long-held anti-Nazi fervour; from 1941 he served as controller of press and censorship. His sf novel, The Richardson Story (1951; vt It Happened Tomorrow 1952), deals with an ominous Near Future advance in Communications, allowing Subliminal messages to control populations. Williams became a life peer in 1962. [JC]
Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams
born St Martins, Shropshire: 10 March 1903
died Dorking, Surrey: 5 June 1970
works
- The Richardson Story (London: William Heinemann, 1951) [hb/nonpictorial]
- It Happened Tomorrow (New York: Abelard Press, 1952) [vt of the above: hb/]
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