Title | The Man Who Lived Backward |
Year of Publication | 1950 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 461 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Ross, Malcolm |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Co. |
City | New York |
Keywords | space and time |
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 |