Gillon, Diana
Entry updated 29 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1915-2016) UK author born Diana Pleasance Case and married to Meir Selig Goldstein in June 1937; they changed their surnames to Gillon while living in Jerusalem in the 1940s, prior to their 1948 return to London. Her sf novel, The Unsleep (1961) with Meir Gillon, describes the effect of the Drug Sta-Wake which, by enforcing sleeplessness, contributes to the creation of an admass Dystopia. [JC]
Diana Pleasance Case Gillon
born London: 1 September 1915
died London: 20 March 2016
works
- The Unsleep (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961) with Meir Gillon [hb/King]
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