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David Lindsay (3 March 1876 – 16 July 1945)〔(David Lindsay's birthdate & place ) – The Life and Works of David Lindsay – the Violet Apple.org.uk〕 was a Scottish author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel ''A Voyage to Arcturus'' (1920). ==Biography== Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family in London, and was brought up partly in Jedburgh, where he had family background. He was educated at Colfe's School, Lewisham,〔(Old Colfeians, Colfe's School website )〕 and won a scholarship to university, but for financial reasons went into business, becoming an insurance clerk at Lloyd's of London.〔"David Lindsay" by Gary K. Wolfe, in E. F. Bleiler, ed. ''Supernatural Fiction Writers:Fantasy and Horror''. New York: Scribner's, 1985. pp.541–548.〕 He was successful, but his career was interrupted by service in the World War I, at the age of 40. He first joined the Grenadier Guards, then the Royal Army Pay Corps, where he was promoted to Corporal. After the war Lindsay moved to Cornwall with his young wife to become a full-time writer. ''A Voyage to Arcturus'' was published in 1920, but it was not a success, selling fewer than six hundred copies. This work has links with other Scottish fantasists (for example, George MacDonald, whose work Lindsay was familiar with),〔 and it was in its turn a central influence on C. S. Lewis's ''Out of the Silent Planet''.〔Kathryn Lindskoog – (A Voyage to Arcturus, C. S. Lewis, and The Dark Tower )〕 Also, J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book "with avidity", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.〔(The Top Ten Books That Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien )〕 Lindsay attempted to write a more commercial novel with his next work ''The Haunted Woman'' (1922), but this was barely more successful than the ''Voyage''.〔 He continued to write novels, including the humorous potboiler ''The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly'', but after ''Devil's Tor'' in 1932 he found it increasingly difficult to get his work issued, and spent much of his time on his last work ''The Witch'' which was not published in his lifetime. He and his wife opened a boarding house in Brighton, but they did not prosper and their marriage underwent considerable strain. The house was damaged by the first bomb to fall on Brighton in the World War II and Lindsay, who was in his bath at the time, never recovered from the shock. His death from an infection resulting from an abscess in his tooth was unrelated to the bomb. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Lindsay (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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