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Marshall, James Vance, 1924-2018


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    • Marshall, James Vance, 1924-

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1924-01-03

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Dulwich College Preparatory School

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1950
        • Organization: Christopher Johnson (Firm)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation End: 2018
        • Organization: Johnson & Alcock

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) Robert Hale Ltd.

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Royal Lifeboat Institution

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation End: 2018
        • Organization: Holy Trinity Church (Westcott, Surrey, England)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 811

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 835

    • Birth Place

        London (England)

    • Associated Locale

        Redhill (Surrey, England)

    • Associated Locale

        Godalming (England)

    • Associated Locale

        New Zealand

    • Associated Locale

        Australia

    • Associated Locale

        Sealand (Wales)

    • Associated Locale

        Kingston (Ont.)

    • Associated Locale

        Oxford (England)

    • Associated Locale

        Westcott (Surrey, England)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Occupation

      Historian

      Novelist

      Nonfiction author

      Tennis player

      Editor

      Consultant editor

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Marshall, James Vance, 1924-

  • Sources

    • found: The Sydney Morning Herald website, April 22, 2024:author's obituary posted on October 12, 2018 (Donald Gordon Payne; Donald Payne; born January 3, 1924 in Denmark Hill in South East London; died August 22, 2018; James Vance Marshall; Donald Payne, with the permission of the Marshall family, continued to use the pseudonym James Vance Marshall for some of his later works; he preferred the anonymity of a trio of pseudonyms: James Vance Marshall, Ian Cameron, and Donald Gordon; under the pseudonym James Vance Marshall he wrote seven novels as well as two children's books on Indigenous Australian mythology) - https://www.smh.com.au/national/author-of-walkabout-who-preferred-anonymity-20181009-p508lv.html
    • found: Walkabout, 1963:t.p. (James Vance Marshall)
    • found: LC database, 10-9-96(hdg.: Cameron, Ian, 1924- ; usages: Ian Cameron, Donald Gordon, James Vance Marshall)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 13, 2015 :Donald G. Payne (Donald Gordon Payne (born 3 January 1924 in London) is an English author. Using James Vance Marshall as a pseudonym, Payne has written such books as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is probably Walkabout (1959), first published as The Children and later made into a movie featuring Jenny Agutter. Payne has also used Ian Cameron and Donald Gordon as pseudonyms. As Donald Gordon, he has published, among others, Riders of the Storm (2002), an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As Ian Cameron, he published the novel The Lost Ones (1961), later dramatized by The Walt Disney Company as the movie The Island at the Top of the World, as well as the novels The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972) and The White Ship (1975). He has also edited several Reader's Digest volumes, such as the Travels & Adventure series. He lives in Surrey, England, and has four sons and one daughter.)

  • LC Classification

    • PR6066.A9

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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-04-22: new
    • 2023-11-05: revised

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