Arthur H. Landis

Arthur Harold Landis (1917 – January 1986) was an American fantasy, fiction and non-fiction author.

Biography

Born at Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of vaudeville performers, Landis later travelled throughout the American West working at a variety of jobs. In 1937 he enlisted in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain during the civil war, serving as a scout and artillery spotter. He served in the battles of Aragon and Teruel. Before departing Spain, he was able to load his unit's archives onto a ship that left the country. through Camelot Publishing. He was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Soviet Union.

Landis died of bone cancer in Los Angeles in 1986.

Two years after his death, Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, a re-edited and shorter version of his The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, was published.