LUCAS, F(rank) L(aurence)

(1894-1967)

   UK writer and critic, better known in the latter capacity. Of his fiction, The Woman Clothed with the Sun and Other Stories (coll of linked stories 1937), like much of the work of F. Britten AUSTIN, presents a didactic rendering of mankind's destiny through a story-sequence, in this case extending from AD53 to 1995, ending in an exemplary cleansing of the human species from the world.

   JC