The Man Who Lived Backward

Year of Publication
1950
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
461 p.
Language
English
Author
Author: Malcolm Ross
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Co.
City
New York
Genre
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Abstract
Mark Selby lives backwards: being born in 1940, and waking up each morning on the sequentially previous day before dying in 1865.
Author Biography
Malcolm Ross (1895-1965), born in Newark and educated at Yale University, was a World War I veteran, public relations director for the NLRB, head of the Fair Employment and Practices Commission under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and chairman of the University of Miami Press.
Time
1865-1940
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