Francis Leslie Ashton
Francis Leslie Ashton | |
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Born | Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, England | 24 June 1904
Died | July 1994 Ely, Cambridgeshire, England | (aged 90)
Francis Leslie Ashton (24 June 1904 – July 1994) was an English writer known for his first novel Breaking of the Seals in 1946 and a kind of sequel Alas, That Great City from 1948. The two novels concern disasters involving objects orbiting the Earth in prehistoric times. In 1952 he co-wrote Wrong Side of the Moon, which concerns space travel.
Personal life[]
- Francis Leslie Ashton was born on 24 June 1904 in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire to Mary Alice and William Ashton. Ashton had two siblings, Elizabeth Bruce (1902–1994) and Stephen Thurstan Ashton (1907–1991).
- Ashton died in Ely, Cambridgeshire in July 1994 aged 90 years.
References[]
- Clute, John (1993). "Ashton, Francis Leslie". In John Clute and Peter Nicholls (ed.). Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd ed.). St. Martin's Press. pp. 55. ISBN 0-312-09618-6.
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Categories:
- British science fiction writers
- 1904 births
- 1994 deaths
- 20th-century English novelists
- English male novelists
- 20th-century English male writers
- Science fiction writer stubs
- British novelist stubs