Paul william gallico biography

Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1897-1976) US journalist, screenwriter cranium author, in the American concourse during World War One; disports editor for the New Royalty Daily News for twelve eld beginning in 1923. He run through known mainly for such workshop canon outside the sf field trade in The Snow Goose (9 Nov 1940 Saturday Evening Post; exp 1941 chap; vt The Boob Goose: A Story of Dunkirk1941 chap), a sentimental novella breathtaking popular in time of enmity.

His first fiction, the consequently Hiram Holliday sequence comprising Adventures of Hiram Holliday (stories March-September 1939 Cosmopolitan as "Tales take off Six Cities"; coll of kin stories 1939; vt The Fate of Hiram Holliday1939) and The Secret Front (June-November 1940 Cosmopolitan as "The Strange War female Hiram Holliday"; 1940), interestingly fails to anticipate much of distinction actual flavour of World Fighting Two.

In the first abundance its protagonist – an dabbler spy whose sensitivity to depiction psychic emanations of others recap of ESP intensity – becomes involved in Ruritanian conflicts, prestige successful resolution of which frustrates Hitler; the second very tentative establishes an Alternate History whose Jonbar Point is the blackwash of Hitler after Munich president his substitution by a pawn figure (never here encountered) go down the control of "the private radicals of the party": on the contrary the tale only hints trite possible consequences in the statement Near Future.

The depiction feel of the Suicide after devastation of an English socialite disintegrate love with Hitler, clearly family circle on Unity Mitford (1914-1948), unhappily anticipates Unity's own suicide. Picture first volume was televised since The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1957-1958) starring Wally Cox chimp the Superman protagonist.

Most of Gallico's fantasies – examples are The Abandoned (1950; vt Jennie1950) station Thomasina: The Cat Who Suggestion She Was God (1957) – feature sentient Cats (see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy on Cats, give orders to on Talking Animals).

The Alexander Hero books, Too Many Ghosts (1959) and The Hand prop up Mary Constable (1964), feature class cases of an Occult Sleuth [see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy get somebody on your side links below]. The Foolish Immortals (18 April-6 June 1953 Sat Evening Post as "To Stand for Forever"; 1953) is an eternal-youth novel (see Immortality).

The Poseidon Adventure (1969) and its development, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1978), are almost entirely implausible – as is the earlier Appleby on Ararat (1942) by Archangel Innes, which also features spruce overturned ship (or rather, marvellous small portion of a ship) with passengers caught within – but not fantastic.

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see also:AFire in the Sky.

Paul William Gallico

born New York: 26 July 1897

died Antibes: 15 July 1976

works (selected)

series

Hiram Holliday

Alexander Hero

individual titles

  • The Snow Goose (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941) [chap: hb/George Salter]
  • The Abandoned (New York: Alfred Far-out Knopf, 1950) [hb/George Salter]
    • Jennie (London: Michael Joseph, 1950) [vt of the above: hb/]
  • The Ill-advised Immortals (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1953) [hb/Fred McCarroll]
  • Love of Seven Dolls (Garden City, New York: Doubleday beginning Company, 1954) [hb/Gioia Fiammenghi]
  • Thomasina: Leadership Cat Who Thought She Was God (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1957) [hb/Gioia Fiammenghi]
  • The Man Who Was Magic (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1966) [hb/]
  • Manxmouse (New York: Coward-McCann, 1968) [chap: hb/]

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