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Ken Greenhall

Ken Greenhall was an editor of reference books, first on the staff of the Encyclopedia Americana and later for the New Columbia Encyclopedia. He wrote his first novel, Elizabeth (1976), a tale of witchcraft, under his mother's maiden name Jessica Hamilton. Several more novels followed, including Hell Hound (1977), which was published abroad as Baxter and adapted for a critically acclaimed 1989 French film under that title. Greenhall died in 2014.