John Keir Cross

(August, 19 1914 – January 22, 1967)

John Keir Cross was a UK pro writer and editor from the 1940s to the 1960s including work for television and radio. He visited the London meetings at The White Horse at least once. He also attended Festivention in 1951 after adapting Paul Capon's novel The Other Side of the Sun (1950) for the BBC. Walt Willis said:

After the buffet, all the fans who were still alive were propped up on chairs to listen to John Keir Cross talking about his troubles in trying to put sf over on the British Broadcasting Corporation. It was so complicated it sounded like the World of Null-BBC. Mr. Cross was so eloquent, and the spirits of the fans were so cowed by the buffet, that no one asked how come that Mr. Cross had made such a lousy job of the sf serial he was allowed to produce on the air. The Other Side Of The Sun, this was, and the author, Paul Capon, was down to speak as well as Cross. Evidently he didn't think he could for he mumbled some words the only one of which was distinguishable was 'laryngitis' and sat down again. I was furious about this, since this was the only way I could think of getting out of making a speech myself, and now Capon had spoiled it.

Links

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• John Keir Cross in Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Person

1914—1967

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