Beeching, Jack
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK poet and author John Charles Stuart Beeching (1922-2001), author (in collaboration with his first wife) of numerous Young Adult historical novels as James Barbary. His sf novel, The Dakota Project (1968), is a Near Future tale focusing on the eponymous, claustrophobic government project which prefigures outcomes ominous to a free society. [JC]
John Charles Stuart Beeching
born Sussex: 8 May 1922
died Palma de Majorca: 27 December 2001
works
- The Dakota Project (London: Jonathan Cape, 1968) [hb/Alan Moyler]
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