Background
Laing was born on August 7, 1903 in Great Neck, New York, United States; the son of Edgar Hall Laing and Mary Adeline (Pray) Laing.
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Laing graduated from Dartmouth College in 1933. He worked at that college from 1929 to 1976.
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This book about the evolution of watercraft on the American continents begins with elusive evidence of Eskimo whaling nearly four thousand years ago and concludes with Antarctic whaling of the 1960s.
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1971
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The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, Alexander Laing's odd hybrid of horror, crime and science fiction, was an unlikely bestseller and critical success when first published in 1934, and it was later selected by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the top horror novels of all time.
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Laing was born on August 7, 1903 in Great Neck, New York, United States; the son of Edgar Hall Laing and Mary Adeline (Pray) Laing.
Laing received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1933.
Laing began his career as a technical editor of "Radio News" in 1925. A year later he shipped as an ordinary seaman on the S. S. Leviathan to Southampton. Then in 1928, Alexander shipped from Newark, New Jersey, through the Panama Canal to the Pacific.
In 1929, he was appointed a tutorial adviser in the English Department at Dartmouth College. Also in 1930, he became an adviser to the arts at the same college. Laing sailed around the world as a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for creative writing abroad and ethnographic study of peoples in the Pacific from 1934 to 1935.
In addition, in 1937, he took a position of an assistant librarian of the Dartmouth College Library, where he worked until 1950. In 1947, Alexander became a director of the Public Affairs Laboratory of the Great Issues Course at Dartmouth College. Five years later he was appointed an educational services adviser at that college. Then in 1966, Laing held a position of a Professor of Belles Letters at Dartmouth College, where he served until his retirement in 1968 as a Professor of Belles Lettres Emeritus.
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1971On June 10, 1930 Alexander Laing married Isabel (Lattimore) Frost Laing, with whom he divorced in 1934. On May 30, 1936 he married Dilys Bennett. They have a son. Then on March 22, 1961 he married Veronica Ruzicka.