author
Ingersoll Lockwood
1841–1918
Best remembered today for the curious Baron Trump adventures and the novel 1900; or, The Last President, this American writer also led a busy life in law and diplomacy. His books mix late-19th-century imagination, satire, and political unease in ways that still catch modern readers off guard.
4 Audiobooks
Eleven Possible Cases
by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
by Ingersoll Lockwood
1900; or, The last President
by Ingersoll Lockwood
Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger
by Ingersoll Lockwood
About the author
Born in Ossining, New York, in 1841, Ingersoll Lockwood was an American lawyer, diplomat, and writer. Before becoming known for his fiction, he studied law and also served in diplomatic work during the Lincoln era, giving him a perspective that reached beyond purely literary circles.
Lockwood wrote across several forms, including drama, nonfiction, and novels. He is most closely associated with the children's adventure books featuring Baron Trump and with 1900; or, The Last President, a political novel that has attracted renewed attention long after his death because of its strange, unsettling premise.
He died in 1918, but his reputation has had an unusual afterlife. What makes him interesting is not just the odd fame of a few titles, but the way his work reflects the anxieties, humor, and speculative imagination of his time.