William Sarjeant
William Antony Swithin Sarjeant (15 July 1935 – 8 July 2002), also known by the pen name Antony Swithin, was a professor of geology at University of Saskatchewan. He was also interested in mystery writing, fantasy writing, folk singing, and heritage preservation. He received the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal in 1990 for his work in the history of geology.
Born in Sheffield, England, he wrote series of novels (1990-1993) in the vein of The Lord of the Rings. They were set in a fictional land of Rockall based upon the small real island of the same name northwest of Scotland and Ireland.
Sarjeant died of cancer at age 66 in July 2002. Following his death, William Sarjeant Park in the city's Willowgrove neighborhood was named in his honor.
Writings[]
- Sarjeant, William A. S. (1980). Geologists and the History of Geology. An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978. Arno Press. ISBN 978-0333293935.
External links[]
- Detailed life history
- University website listing academic work
- Obituary
- Works by or about William Sarjeant at Internet Archive
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- 1935 births
- 2002 deaths
- British expatriates in Canada
- Canadian male novelists
- Academics of the University of Sheffield
- University of Saskatchewan faculty
- English male novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- Canadian fantasy writers
- 20th-century Canadian geologists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 20th-century English male writers
- English academic biography stubs
- English writer stubs