Victor A. Endersby

Born in Montana in December 1891, Victor A. Endersby studied at Stanford University and later served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War I. He went on to work as a civil engineer, but writing remained an important part of his life.

Endersby wrote under his own name and also used the name John Danelaw. Alongside fiction, he became known in Theosophical circles as the editor of Theosophical Notes, a long-running California periodical he published with his wife Frances, and he also helped found Manas with Henry Geiger in 1948.

That mix of practical training and spiritual curiosity gives his work an unusual flavor. Whether he was writing stories or essays, he brought an independent mind and a strong interest in ideas, spending decades engaged with questions of belief, philosophy, and how people make sense of the world.