William McFee
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William Morley Punshon McFee[1] (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was an English writer of sea stories. Both of his parents were Canadian.[2]
Early years
The son of John McFee and Hilda Wallace McFee,
As a youth, McFee worked in an engineering shop at Aldersgate, wrote a 40-page poem, and lectured on Rudyard Kipling.[4]
Sailing
McFee became a
After the war, he returned to the United States to live in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was with the United Fruit Company, as a chief engineer[6] until 1924 when he turned definitively to writing.
Writing
In addition to books, he also wrote reviews for
McFee's works included In the First Watch (1946), an autobiography, published by Random House of Canada.[8] He wrote several collections of memoirs. His hobby was making ship models.
Personal life
While in the navy, McFee met Pauline Khondoff, a Bulgarian refugee. The couple wed in 1920, but divorced in 1932.[9] He was married twice more, first to Beatrice Allender who died in 1952 and then to Dorothy North.
McFee became a United States citizen in 1925.[5]
Recognition
In 1936, Yale University conferred an honorary Master of Arts degree on McFee.[10]
Works
- Letters from an Ocean Tramp. Cassell & Company, Inc. 1908.
- Aliens. Edward Arnold. 1914.
- Casuals of the Sea. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1916.
- Aliens. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1919.
- Captain Macedoine's Daughter. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1920.
- A Six Hour Shift. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1920.
- Harbours of Memory. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1922.
- Command. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1922.
- Race. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1924.
- Sunlight in New Granada. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1925.
- Swallowing the anchor: Being a revised and enlarged collection of notes made by an engineer in the merchant service who secured leave of absence from his ship to investigate & report upon the alleged superiority of life ashore. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1925.
- Pilgrims of Adversity. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1928.
- Life of Sir Martin Frobisher. J. Lane, Bodley Head. 1928.
- North of Suez. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1930.
- Sailors of Fortune. William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
- The Harbourmaster. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1931.
- No Castle in Spain. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1933.
- More Harbours of Memory. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1934.
- The Beachcomber. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1935.
- Sailor's Wisdom. J. Cape. 1935.
- The Beachcomber. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1935.
- Sailor's Bane. Ritten House. 1936.
- The Derelicts. Faber & Faber. 1938.
- The Watch Below. Random House. 1940.
- Spenlove in Arcady. Random House. 1940.
- A Conrad Argosy. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1942.
- Ship to Shore. Random House. 1944.
- In the First Watch. Random House. 1946.
- Family Trouble. Random House. 1949.
- The Law of the Sea. J.B. Lippincott Co. 1950.
- The Adopted. Faber. 1952.
References
- ^ JSTOR 40624100.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ McCulloch, John Herries (1933). A Million Miles in Sail. London: Hurst and Blackwell. p. 23.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
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- ^ "William McFee Papers". Special Collections Research Center. Syracuse University. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ISBN 9780060910693.
- Newspapers.com.
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- Newspapers.com.
- Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, English and American (1958)
- Love, Paul A. "William McFee." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists. Vol. 15. The Gale Group, 1995. 195–203. Gale Literary Databases. 8 December 2008 <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.
- "William M'Fee, Author, 85, Dies." New York Times 4 July 1966: 15.
- Who Was Who 1897–2006 (2007)
External links
- Works by William McFee at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William McFee at Internet Archive
- Works by William McFee at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- "The Market"
- William McFee papers at Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles
- William McFee Collection at Yale University Library
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