Willits, Malcolm
Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1934-2019) US film director, bookseller, editor and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "To Not Be Worthy" in Destiny for Winter 1950, along with several other early stories in that journal (see Amateur Magazine), which he himself co-edited with Jim Bradley. He is of more direct sf interest for The Wonderful Edison Time Machine: A Celebration of Life (1999), a Young Adult Time Travel tale whose young protagonists take a Time Machine back to 1929 in an attempt to avert the great Stock Market Crash of that year. Shakespeare's Cat: A Play in Three Acts (2004) is a Cat fantasy, which Willits filmed as Shakespeare's Cat (2010), written and directed by himself. [JC]
Malcolm Willits
born Portland, Oregon: 5 February 1934
died 15 April 2019
works (selected)
- The Wonderful Edison Time Machine: A Celebration of Life (Los Angeles, California: Hypostyle Hall Publishers, 1999) [illus/hb/Tony Bluth]
- Shakespeare's Cat: A Play in Three Acts (Los Angeles, California: Hypostyle Hall Publishers, 2004) [hb/Bonnie Callahan]
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