William Vaughan Wilkins was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

  historical novelist and journalist.

Biography

Vaughan Wilkins was born in London. He married Mary Isabel Stanistreet and had two children. He spent some time
working as a journalist for the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

. Wilkins was noted for his novel And So-Victoria about
Queen Victoria. Wilkins also wrote two "lost world"

Lost World (genre)

The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day....

 fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 novels inspired by Celtic
mythology, The City of Frozen Fire (1950) and Valley Beyond Time (1955).

External links

• The National Portrait Gallery has eight images of Vaughan Wilkins none of which are available as a web image. Details of these can be seen at: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp57978. [Accessed 30 July 2007].