Working name of Leonard Eliot Crawshay Williams (1879-1962) – when he adopted the hyphenation is uncertain – UK politician (Liberal Member of Parliament 1910-1913) and author whose Night in No Time: A Novel (1946) is a Timeslip fantasy. His Time Paradox story, "The Man Who Met Himself" (in The Man Who Met Himself and Other Stories, coll 1947), deals with the familiar sf trope of encountering an older/younger version of oneself. The Wolf from the West: Tracing the Glorious Tragedy of Glyndwr (1947) is another Timeslip tale, whose protagonist finds himself in the world of Owen Glendower. [DRL/JC/JE]

Leonard Eliot Crawshay Williams

born 4 September 1879

died 11 May 1962

works

• Night in No Time: A Novel (London: John Long, 1946) [hb/]
• The Man Who Met Himself and Other Stories (London: John Long, 1947) [coll: hb/]
• The Wolf from the West: Tracing the Glorious Tragedy of Glyndwr (London: John Long Limited, 1947) [hb/Mrs F M'Connell]
• Heaven Takes a Hand (London: John Long Limited, 1952) [hb/]

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