(1912-1963) UK playwright and author, not to be confused with the English tenor John Coates (1865-1941); his Tomorrow's Child: A Comedy in Three Acts (performed 1946; 1947 chap) is set in the over-disciplined Near Future society of 1965 Britain. Here Today (1949) is a Time Travel tale about a man who claims to have wooed Jane Austen. [JC]
John Coates
born 1912
died 1963
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