Liston, Edward
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1900-1986) UK-born physician, flight surgeon and author, naturalized as a US citizen in 1932; in his Lost Race novel, The Bowl of Night (1948), a flight surgeon crash-lands in the Mexican jungle, where he discovers a Mayan civilization accessible only through passages Underground; the Mayans, though totally out of touch with the outside world, have developed science and Technology to rival the industrial West. [JC]
Edward J Liston
born Warrington, Lancashire: 1 February 1900
died Palo Alto, California: 20 March 1986
works
- The Bowl of Night (New York: Coward-McCann, 1948) [hb/Haberstock]
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