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Stanley Shaw
b. 1870
An Australian writer and journalist remembered for a strikingly unusual mix of work: a 1913 study of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the rare 1924 speculative novel The Locust Horde. Little is known about his later life, which gives his surviving books an extra air of mystery.
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William of Germany
by Stanley Shaw
About the author
Born in 1870, Stanley Shaw is identified in library and reference records as an Australian author, and some sources give his full name as Frederick Stanley Shaw. He appears to have worked as a journalist, including on the staff of the Hobart Mercury.
His best-known surviving books show a wide range of interests. William of Germany (1913) is a book about Kaiser Wilhelm II, published by Methuen in London. More unusual is The Locust Horde (1924), a scarce speculative novel noted by science-fiction reference sources as a near-future story about mass immigration and political conspiracy.
Beyond those records, biographical details are sparse, and even his date of death is unclear in standard reference sources. That uncertainty, combined with the rarity of his fiction, has left Shaw as one of those half-shadowed early 20th-century writers whose work survives more clearly than the life behind it.