BECHDOLT, Jack

BECHDOLT, Jack:    Working name of US writer John Ernest Bechdolt (1884-1954) for his fiction, though he used his full name for other writing. The Lost Vikings (1931) features juveniles who discover a lost race (LOST WORLDS) of Vikings in Alaska. The Torch (1920 Argosy; 1948) is a post- HOLOCAUST story set in the New York of AD3000; the torch is the Statue of Liberty's.

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Jack Bechdolt — Infobox writer name = John Ernest Bechdolt caption = pseudonym = Jack Bechdolt birthname = birthdate = 1884 birthplace = deathdate = Death year and age|1954|1884 deathplace = occupation = novelist, short story writer, journalist nationality =… … Wikipedia
The Torch (novel) — Infobox Book name = The Torch title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket from the first edition author = Jack Bechdolt illustrator = Robert Tschirky cover artist = Robert Tschirky country = United States language = English series =… … Wikipedia
Prime Press — Prime Press, Inc. was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in in 1947. It was founded by Oswald Train, James A. Williams, Alfred C. Prime, and Armand E. Waldo who were all members of the Philadelphia… … Wikipedia
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