Ingersoll Lockwood

Born in Ossining, New York, in 1841, Ingersoll Lockwood built a varied career as a lawyer, diplomat, and writer. He studied at Yale, served in the U.S. diplomatic service in Europe, and later practiced law, bringing a worldly, satirical edge to much of his writing.

As an author, he is most closely linked with the children's books Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger and Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. He also wrote the political novel 1900; or, The Last President, along with a play and several nonfiction works, some published under the pseudonym Irwin Longman.

Lockwood died in 1918 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Though he was not a major literary celebrity in his own lifetime, his unusual mix of fantasy, humor, and political imagination has kept readers returning to his books long after the nineteenth century ended.