Francis Leslie Ashton

Francis Leslie Ashton (24 June 1904 – July 1994) was a British writer known for his first novel Breaking of the Seals in 1946 and a kind of sequel Alas, That Great City from 1948. The two novels concern disasters involving objects orbiting the Earth in prehistoric times. In 1952 he co-wrote Wrong Side of the Moon, which concerns space travel.

Personal life

• Francis Leslie Ashton was born on 24th June 1904 in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire to Mary Alice and William Ashton. Ashton had two siblings, Elizabeth Bruce (1902-1994) and Stephen Thurstan Ashton (1907-1991).

• Ashton died in Ely, Cambridgeshire in July 1994 aged 90 years.

References

• Clute, John (1993). "Ashton, Francis Leslie". In John Clute and Peter Nicholls. Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd ed. ed.). St. Martin's Press. pp. 55. ISBN 0-312-09618-6. 

External links

• Francis Leslie Ashton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Rootsweb profile