(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

works

• Tomorrow's Child: A Comedy in Three Acts (London: Samuel French, 1947) [play: chap: first performed 22 October 1946 Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool: pb/]
• Here Today (London: Methuen and Co, 1949) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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