Name John Boland | Role Novelist | |
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Died June 19, 1976, San Mateo County, California, United States Movies The League of Gentlemen, Piernas de seda Nominations Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story Books The Color of Fraud, The OBM, Missing Actions, Amber Road, The League of Gentlemen Similar People Basil Dearden, Bryan Forbes, Jose Lopez Rubio, Frederica Sagor Maas, Rosita Moreno | ||
Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author.
Boland was born in Birmingham, but later lived in East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest with his wife, Philippa.
His most well known book was The League of Gentlemen (1958) which was released as a film. However, characters' names and the ending were changed. He wrote two sequels:
They continued with the characterisations developed in the film.
His first novel "White August" (1955) was a science fiction weather control disaster story. His second, "No Refuge" (1956) begins as a bank robbery crime story but them changes into science fiction, depicting a futuristic lost world. In this world children get much of their education from computers and adults walk around with a small device on their chest, listing to music through earpieces.
As well as novels, he published short stories in science fiction magazines, including Galaxy Science Fiction and New Worlds.
Boland was closely involved with Swanwick writers' summer school becoming its chairman in 1958