Du BOIS, William Pene

Du BOIS, William Pene
(1916-1993)
   US writer, illustrator and art editor and designer for Paris Review. His own novels, which he illustrates himself (he also illustrates other writers' books), are usually juveniles, though the illustrations are of general interest. He began publishing with stories like Elizabeth, the Cow Ghost (1936), Giant Otto (1936), and The Flying Locomotive (1941), and much of his work employs fantasy elements. The ANTIGRAVITY device featured in Peter Graves (1950) verges on sf, and The Twenty-One Balloons (1947) is a full-fledged sf novel: a retired professor, travelling across the Pacific by BALLOON in 1883, is forced down on Krakatoa, where he finds a UTOPIA in full swing, financed by its inhabitants' secret trips to civilization to sell diamonds, which they have in plenty. The famous eruption of that year finishes the experiment, but everyone escapes by balloon.
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   See also: CHILDREN'S SF.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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