Willard, T A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1862-1943) US inventor, musician, entrepreneur and author of two Lost Race tales. In The Wizard of Zacna: A Lost City of the Mayas (1929), an ancient man tells the narrator of his experiences as a youth in a lost world dominated by a blonde princess who enthrals him (see She), though a brunette princess truly loves him (which kills her). Bride of the Rain God: Princess of Chichen-Itza, the Sacred City of the Incas [for full subtitles for both titles see Checklist below] (1930) is a Club Story narrated by Willard himself to a five listeners, in which he describes a long-lost City in the lost land of Chichen Itza. [JC]
Theodore Arthur Willard
born Castle Rock, Minnesota: 10 December 1862
died Beverly Hills, California: 3 February 1943
works
- The Wizard of Zacna: A Lost City of the Mayas: Remarkable Adventures of an Ahmen, Wizard and Mystic of Yucatan, in an Unknown Country to Which the Ancient Mayas had Fled, Leaving their Great Stone Cities Silent and Desolate to Be Overgrown with Forest and Jungle (Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1929) [hb/]
- Bride of the Rain God: Princess of Chichen-Itza, the Sacred City of the Mayas: Being an Historical Romance of a Prince and Princess of Chichen-Itza in that Glamorous Land of the Ancient Mayas, Where Conflicting Human Passions Dominated the Lives of the Long-Dead Past as They Do Those of Today (Cleveland, Ohio: Burrows Brothers Company, 1930) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The City of the Sacred Well: Being a Narrative of the Discoveries and Excavations of Edward Herbert Thompson in the Ancient City of Chi-Chen Itza with some Discourse on the Culture and Development of the Mayan Civilization as Revealed by their Art and Architecture: Here Set Down and Illustrated from Photographs (New York: The Century Company, 1926) [nonfiction: illus/T A Willard: hb/]
about the author
- Edna Robb Webster. T A Willard: Wizard of the Storage Battery: The Biography of a Famous Inventor (Sherman Oaks, California: Wilmar Publishers, 1976) [nonfiction: hb/]
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