(1887-1970) US editor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Dead Man's Tale" for Weird Tales in 1923, and whose Castaways of Plenty: A Parable of our Times (1935) is an anti-capitalist Satire set in the Near Future. He continued to publish stories until 1952, the most notable of these perhaps being "Look to the Stars" (October 1950 Imagination). [JC/MA]

Willard E Hawkins

born Fairplay, Colorado: 27 September 1887

died Craig, Colorado: 17 April 1970

works

• Castaways of Plenty: A Parable of our Times (New York: Basic Books, 1935) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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