Balch, William S
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1806-1887) US minister, politician journalist and author, mostly of nonfiction; of sf interest is A Peculiar People; Or, Reality in Romance (1881), in which a visitor to the secluded land of Nussara in the Middle East (see Lost Race) discovers there a successful Utopia run on religious lines. Balch was a minister in the Universalist Church, a faith which espouses the doctrine that God did not create humans to damn them. [JC]
William Stevens Balch
born Andover, Vermont: 13 April 1806
died Elgin, Illinois: 25 December 1887
works (selected)
- A Peculiar People; Or, Reality in Romance (Chicago, Illinois: Henry A Sumner and Company, 1881) [hb/uncredited]
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