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(1903-1978) US academic, political historian – instructor in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University – and author of two books of somewhat marginal sf interest. A Storm Is Rising (1934) is about a Near-Future conspiracy to overthrow the American government; in The Long Death: A Catalyst Club Murder Mystery (1937), a proto-nuclear physicist is murdered (by long distance X-Rays) at the point of discovering how to harness the atom (see Nuclear Energy). [JC]
born Washington, District of Columbia: 21 April 1903
died New Hope, Pennsylvania: 8 November 1978
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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