| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Machen, Arthur |
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(m k´ n) (KEY) , 1863–1947, British author, b. Wales. He wrote a series of semiautobiographical fantasies, notably The Hill of Dreams (1907) and Far Off Things (1922), and tales of horror and the supernatural. Machen achieved transient fame during World War I with “The Bowman,” a tale relating how St. George and his ghostly archers rescue the British army and slaughter the Germans. | 1 | | See his autobiography, ed. by M. Bishop (1951); biography by W. D. Sweetser (1964). | 2 |
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