Ward Moore

Ward Moore ( born August 10, 1903 in Madison, New Jersey; † 28 January 1978) was an American science fiction author.

Life and work

Joseph Ward Moore grew up in Madison, New Jersey. He decided early to become a writer. After he first worked as a bookseller in New York, he lived for a time in Chicago, Illinois and since 1929 near Los Angeles in California .. From 1937 to 1940 he was with the Federal Writers ' Project employed before 1942 his first novel Breathe the Air Again, published. In this novel, Moore explores the labor struggles during the Great Depression. His next novel, Greener Than You Think is about how a new type of fertilizer leads to unbridled grass growth until the whole world is overgrown by grass. His greatest success was in 1953 located today in the print Bring the Jubilee (Eng. The large south), a classic of the alternative world literature, in which the southern states win the American Civil War .. This success did not continue his later books, but his 1953 and 1954 published short stories Lot and Lot 's Wife served as a template for the film panic in the year Zero (1962, dt panic in Year zero ), and his work to date has a great influence on other science fiction writers. Ward Moore died on January 28, 1978 in California.

Novels

• Breathe the Air Again., 1942.
• Greener Than You Think. William Sloane, New York, 1947 (Eng. Go green (Translated by Bernd W. Wood judges). Moewig Arthur, Munich, 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3510-6 ).
• Bring the Jubilee, Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1953 (Eng. The large south (Translated by Walter Brumm ). Heyne, Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-453-17949-8 ).
• Cloud By Day, Heinemann, London, 1956.
• Joyleg ( with Avram Davidson). Pyramid Press, New York, 1962, ISBN 1-58715-077-8.
• Caduceus Wild ( with Robert Bradford). Pinnacle Books, New York, 1978, ISBN 0-523-40246-5.