World Alien

by J.F. Hendry

52 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1980

About the author

J.F. Hendry was a Scottish writer. He is best known for his novel about growing up in the West of Scotland, Fernie Brae (1947), and as the pioneering editor, along with Henry Treece, of the three anthologies, The New Apocalypse, White Horsemen and Crown and Sickle, and as the author of two volumes of verse, The Bombed Happiness and Orchestral Mountain, and of the epic poem Marimarusa.

He was educated at Whitehill School in Dennistoun and was a student of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow although he did not graduate. He served in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War and when the war was over he left Scotland to travel through Europe, Africa and North America as a translator with the United Nations. He was for many years Director of the School of Translators and Interpreters at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada. He died in Toronto in 1986.