Williamson, Thames
Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US screenwriter and author Thomas Ross Williamson (1894-1961) who over a prolific career published some work of genre interest, beginning with The Man Who Cannot Die (1926), set in the eighteenth century, about an elixir that gives Immortality at a cost. Against the Jungle (1933), set in Africa, and The Flint Chipper: A Boy's Story of England in the Stone Age (1940), are Lost Race adventures written for boys. Beginning at Dusk: An Interlude (1935) is a competent ghost story, very mildly racy (see Sex) after the manner of Thorne Smith. [JC]
Thomas Ross Williamson
born Genesee, Idaho: 7 February 1894
died Pacific Grove, California: 5 May 1961
works (highly selected)
- The Man Who Cannot Die (Boston, Massachusetts: Small, Maynard and Company, 1926) [hb/]
- Against the Jungle (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933) [illus/hb/Heman Fray, Jr]
- Beginning at Dusk: An Interlude (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935) [hb/]
- The Flint Chipper: A Boy's Story of England in the Stone Age (Boston, Massachusetts: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1940) [illus/hb/Woodi Ishmael]
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