WILLIAM HOLT-WHITE was born in Hanwell, Middlesex in 1878 and died in Eastry, Kent in 1937. He was a globetrotting correspondent and later editor for the London "Daily Mail" and wrote fiction in his spare time, mainly in the science-fiction and fantasy genres, alongside such contemporaries as H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His novels include "The Earthquake" (1906), "The Man Who Stole Earth" (1909), "The Prime Minister's Secret" (1910), "Helen of All Time" (1910) "The Man Who Dreamed Right " (1910), "The Earth Stood Still" (1912), "The Woman Who Saved the World" (1914)...