Arthur H. Landis

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Arthur Harold Landis (born November 21, 1917 in Birmingham , Alabama , † January 27, 1986 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American writer.

Life

Landis was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1917 to a family of vaudeville artists. He spent most of his youth in Redondo Beach , California. During the Great Depression , Landis roamed the western United States doing odd jobs.

After the outbreak of the Spanish civil war , the then 19-year-old decided to go to Spain in April 1937 and fight in the International Brigades . There he served in the Mackenzie Papineau battalion and took part in the Battle of Teruel and the Aragon offensive . In December 1938 he returned to the United States on board the RMS Ausonia .

Shortly after his return, he married and worked in Rochester , Minnesota in his wife's father's clothing store. Struggling with financial difficulties, Landis and his wife moved to Mexico City and settled in California in 1944. The marriage soon ended in divorce.

Landis began working as a writer in the mid-1950s. He was also involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s. In 1967 he published the book The Abraham Lincoln Brigade which deals with the unit of the same name during the Spanish Civil War. In 1972 he published with Spain! The Unfinished Revolution is his second book on the Spanish Civil War.

In addition to these books, Landis worked as a fantasy and science fiction writer. For example, he wrote for Coven 13 , a fantasy magazine published in the late 1960s, and published several books.

Landis died of bone cancer in Los Angeles in January 1986 . Posthumously, Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War was published in 1989.

Publications

  • The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1967)
  • Spain! The Unfinished Revolution (1972)
  • Camelot range
    • A World Called Camelot (1965)
    • Camelot in Orbit (1978)
    • The Magick of Camelot (1981)
  • Home-To Avalon (1982)
  • Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1989)

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SURNAME Landis, Arthur H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landis, Arthur Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1986
Place of death Los Angeles , California