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Kreisheimer, H C

(1897-1972) US author of The Whooping Crane (1955 chap), in which a community enforcedly becomes a communist Dystopia, with the eponymous airplane, which is ambivalently futuristic, symbolically active in the tale. [JC]

Mrs Helen C Kreisheimer

born Ohio: 17 April 1897

died Bowling Green, Ohio: 2 December 1972

works

• The Whooping Crane (New York: Pageant Press, 1955) [chap: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 13:48 pm on 7 March 2026.
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