| LC control no. | n 2022021405 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6066.A9 |
| Personal name heading | Marshall, James Vance, 1924-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Marshall, James Vance, 1924- |
| See also | Works by this author are identified by the name used in the item. For a listing of other names used by this author, search also under: Payne, Donald Gordon, 1924-2018 Cameron, Ian, 1924- Payne, Donald Gordon, 1924-2018 Cameron, Ian, 1924- |
| Ending date | g 2018-08-22 |
| Associated country | New Zealand Australia |
| Associated place | Godalming (England) Sealand (Wales) Kingston (Ont.) Oxford (England) Westcott (Surrey, England) |
| Birth date | 1924-01-03 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Redhill (Surrey, England) |
| Affiliation | Dulwich College Preparatory School Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) Charterhouse School (Godalming, England) Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet Air Arm Christopher Johnson (Firm) Johnson & Alcock Robert Hale Ltd. Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Royal Lifeboat Institution Holy Trinity Church (Westcott, Surrey, England) Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 811 Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 835 |
| Profession or occupation | Historian Novelist Nonfiction author Tennis player Editor Consultant editor |
| Found in | The Sydney Morning Herald website, April 22, 2024: author's obituary posted on October 12, 2018 (Donald Gordon Payne; Donald Payne; born January 3, 1924 in Denmark Hill in South East London; died August 22, 2018; James Vance Marshall; Donald Payne, with the permission of the Marshall family, continued to use the pseudonym James Vance Marshall for some of his later works; he preferred the anonymity of a trio of pseudonyms: James Vance Marshall, Ian Cameron, and Donald Gordon; under the pseudonym James Vance Marshall he wrote seven novels as well as two children's books on Indigenous Australian mythology) <https://www.smh.com.au/national/author-of-walkabout-who-preferred-anonymity-20181009-p508lv.html> Walkabout, 1963: t.p. (James Vance Marshall) LC database, 10-9-96 (hdg.: Cameron, Ian, 1924- ; usages: Ian Cameron, Donald Gordon, James Vance Marshall) Wikipedia, July 13, 2015 : Donald G. Payne (Donald Gordon Payne (born 3 January 1924 in London) is an English author. Using James Vance Marshall as a pseudonym, Payne has written such books as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is probably Walkabout (1959), first published as The Children and later made into a movie featuring Jenny Agutter. Payne has also used Ian Cameron and Donald Gordon as pseudonyms. As Donald Gordon, he has published, among others, Riders of the Storm (2002), an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As Ian Cameron, he published the novel The Lost Ones (1961), later dramatized by The Walt Disney Company as the movie The Island at the Top of the World, as well as the novels The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972) and The White Ship (1975). He has also edited several Reader's Digest volumes, such as the Travels & Adventure series. He lives in Surrey, England, and has four sons and one daughter.) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no 96052284 |
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