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Personal life. Robert Goddard is married and lives with his wife Vaunda in Truro, Cornwall. Several of the recent books published in his name have identified Vaunda as a joint holder of the copyright. Bibliography. Novels. Past Caring (August 1986), ISBN 0-7090-2743-5 (also published as The Historian)
1 paź 2024 · Goddard was the only child of a bookkeeper, salesman, and machine-shop owner of modest means. The boy had a genteel upbringing and in early youth felt the excitement of the post-Civil War Industrial Revolution when Worcester factories were producing machinery and goods for the burgeoning country.
Goddard was born in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 5, 1882. His childhood interest in things mechanical was greatly heightened in 1898 with the publication of the novel War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. He was to spend the rest of his life dreaming about, and working for, the construction of a spaceflight machine.
5 lis 2017 · Writing life: Robert Goddard. Why the Fault Line author prefers to rise with the larks in the morning when it comes to writing his hugely successful novels. 05 November 2017.
In a writing career spanning more than twenty years, Robert Goddard's novels have been described in many different ways - mystery, thriller, crime, even historical romance. He is the master of the plot twist, a compelling and engrossing storyteller and one of the best known advocates for the traditional virtues of pace, plot and narrative drive.
8 cze 2018 · Robert Goddard, the son of a bookkeeper and machine shop operator, spent his childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts, during the period of rapid industrialization that followed the American Civil War.
Robert Goddard is the British author of two mystery series and several standalone novels, ranging from crime, mystery, thriller, to historical romances.
