White, Jon Manchip, 1924-2013

Jon Manchip White is a distinguished Welsh-American writer who has published over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction. White was born in 1924. He matriculated at Cambridge; after military service, he returned and completed a degree in prehistoric archaeology and anthropology in 1950. White worked for the BBC Television Service, the British Foreign Service, turning to full-time writing in 1956. In 1967, he became writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at El Paso, leaving in 1977 to head the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee.

From the guide to the Inventory of the Jon Manchip White Collection: Sci Fi MSS 00222., 1965, (Cushing Memorial Library)

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