MORRIS, Gouverneur

MORRIS, Gouverneur
(1876-1953)
   US banker and writer, great-grandson of the Founding Father Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) and extremely prolific in his day as an author of short fiction. Some of his work is sf and fantasy, beginning with a prehistoric tale, The Pagan's Progress (1904), in which the hero begins to acquire spiritual values. The Voice in the Rice (1910) is a lost-race novel whose contemporary narrator discovers an Antebellum society in a swamp. Other titles include The Footprint and Other Stories (coll 1908), It and Other Stories (coll 1912) - which includes "Back Therein the Grass" (1911 Colliers), an enduring demonstration of the terrors of BIOLOGY in early sf-If You Touch Them They Vanish (1913) and, with CharlesW. Goddard, The Goddess (1915).
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   See also: ORIGIN OF MAN.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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