The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

WILLIAM MCFEE has weathered a good many storms in his half century. Born in London, he early forsook cockney pursuits. Ships claimed him and he became a seagoing engineer, bound to the merchant marine and spending much of his shore leave in the United States. Whether on an ’Ocean Tramp,’dodging U-boats in the war zone, or landing stores at Salonika, Engineer McFee yet found time to lay the keels of those early books. Aliens and Casuals of the Sea, which launched his name in literature. After the war, printer’s ink began to have its way with him; he came to anchor in Westport, Connecticut, and began seriously to apply himself to his writing. Since 1920, twelve books have come from his dry dock.