Algernon blackwood biography
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() UK author who spent a decade in Canada and the USA from the age of twenty, a period remembered in his partial autobiography Episodes Before Thirty (; vt Adventure Before Thirty); a prolific author of novels and short stories for half a century. He was in active service during World War One as an intelligence agent based in Switzerland, and in other roles. His novels of occult pantheism – best exemplified in The Centaur (), which builds on the theories of Gustav Fechner () in its projections of a sentient Mother Earth (see Gaia) – tend to argue a logic of history which seems sufficiently rational for some of his work to count as sf. This is particularly true of the LeVallon sequence, Julius LeVallon () and The Bright Messenger (). The first is primarily an occult novel regarding an individual who retains memories of past lives (see Reincarnation) and who seeks to remedy an error caused in that life when trying to raise a fire elemental. The remedy misfires and the elemental takes over the body of a baby still in the womb. The second novel explores the life of that child as he matures in the form of a new uber-being (see Superman) for a New Age (see Perception).
Blackwood's earliest known fiction
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by Donald Clarke
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Algernon Blackwood is perhaps best known for his story "The Willows" which is considered one of the finest supernatural tales ever written. Born in in Shooter's Hill, Kent, on March 14, , he grew up in a strict Calvinist family. He was the son of the widowed Duchess of Manchester and her second husband, Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, a clerk in the Treasury and later Secretary of the Post Office. While in private school, at the age of 14, he decided to become a doctor. One of his teachers, a doctor himself, fascinated Blackwood with the powers of therapeutic hypnotism. Blackwood determined to be devote himself to psychiatric medicine. At the age of 16 was sent to Germany for a year to study at the Moravian Brotherhood school in Königsfeld. In line with his strict upbringing he found the military discipline of the school and by the meditative atmosphere and sense of honor and justice. But against the oppressive Sandemarian Calvinism background, a fellow medical student from India introduced him to the Hindu religion. Young Blackwood became fascinated with the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedanta, the Yoga of Patanjali,