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Neil Wynn Williams (14 February 1864 – 1 February 1940) was a British novelist, writer and contributor of short stories and articles to the periodicals and journals of his time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Results for 'au:Williams, Neil Wynn.' () )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Science-fiction, the Early Years )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=08 Jun 1899 - SHORT STORIES. THE TALE OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEE... )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Photograph of Neil Wynn Williams novelist full face'. Copyright owner of work: Neil... )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=p.256-7. The Literary Year Book, and Bookman's Directory, 1900 )〕 ==Life== Neil Wynn Williams was born in Hampstead on 14 February 1864, the son of William Rudyard Wynn Williams and Elizabeth Blackwell Campbell Williams (née Lambert).〔Certificate of Baptism, London, England. Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=- Person Page 22076 )〕 He was educated at Bedford Modern School between 1887 and 1891.〔School of the Black and Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, by Andrew Underwood, 1981. Updated by Peter Boon, 2010. Paperback, P.294〕 Wynn-Williams’s initial published works were two volumes of Greek folklore, ''Tales And Sketches of Modern Greece'' that was published in 1894 and ''The Bayonet That Came Home: A Vanity Of Modern Greece'' that was published in 1896.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Science-fiction, the Early Years )〕 In 1904 he was asked to contribute to a writer’s view of Paris and wrote about the catacombs of the City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paris as Seen and Described by Famous Writers )〕 Wynn-William’s science fiction novel, ''The Electric Theft'', was first published in 1906.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The electric theft )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature )〕 Although critically judged as having ‘little literary merit’, the novel is suggestive of Ian Fleming’s later James Bond novels: the hero, Reginald Burton, discovers that an anarchist, Boleroff, is in command of a vast electrolytic lake under London that he harnesses for his own means, cutting off London’s electricity supply.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The electric theft )〕 All the while Burton is having an affair with a daughter of a wealthy British capitalist.〔 At the end of the novel, Boleroff accidentally kills himself.〔 Wynn-Williams died in Bedford on 1 February 1940.〔England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966〕 He and his brother, Douglas Wynn Williams, had been accomplished oarsmen in their schooldays and endowed a rowing prize for the fastest pair at their old school.〔 Wynn-Williams was survived by his wife, whom he’d married in London on 4 September 1903, and three children.〔London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neil Wynn Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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