John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author and lecturer and a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis.
In 1979, in his book Serpent in the Sky[3], he expanded on the ideas of French mystic[4][5] and alternative Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz, suggesting the Great Sphinx of Giza had been eroded by Nile floods after being created 15,000-10,000 BC by Atlanteans.
[6] Ten years later he teamed up with geologist Robert M. Schoch, seeking validation for his ideas.
In a 1979 exchange of letters in the New York Review of Books, Green drew attention to what he considered to be numerous problems with West's work, including unconscious prejudices, "wildly speculative" ideas and lack of scientific evidence, as well as a tendency towards conspiracy theories in lieu of orthodox Egyptology.
Call Out the Malicia is West's first published book and is a collection of his short stories.