Henry Lincoln

Henry Lincoln
Other names:	Henry Soskin
Birth date:	12 February 1930
Death date:	24 February 2022
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1967-68
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
IMDb profile
Official site

Henry Lincoln (born 12 February 1930 as Henry Soskin, died 24 February 2022) and Mervyn Haisman wrote the Doctor Who stories The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and The Dominators. Though due to extensive changes being done to the script for The Dominators without their consent, Lincoln and Haisman withdrew their names and the pseudonym Norman Ashby was used. They stopped writing for Doctor Who after a disagreement with the BBC over who owned the comic-strip rights to characters and races they created.

With Haisman, Lincoln created the character of Brigadier (originally Colonel) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving writer to have contributed to Doctor Who in the 1960s.

Career

Away from Doctor Who, Henry Lincoln is best known for his non-fiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail which provided the inspiration for the popular Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Abominable Snowmen (with Mervyn Haisman)
• The Web of Fear (with Mervyn Haisman)
• The Dominators (credited as "Norman Ashby")

External links

• Henry Lincoln at the Internet Movie Database