Ingersoll Lockwood

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Ingersoll Lockwood

1841–1918

Best remembered today for a strange trio of late-19th-century books that later drew modern attention, this American lawyer and writer mixed fantasy, satire, and political imagination in memorable ways. His work has lingered because it feels both very of its time and unexpectedly curious to modern readers.

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1900; or, The last President

1900; or, The last President

by Ingersoll Lockwood

Eleven Possible Cases

Eleven Possible Cases

by Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Frank R. Stockton, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler

About the author

Born in New York in 1841, Ingersoll Lockwood was an American lawyer and author. He wrote several novels in the 1890s, including Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, and 1900; or, The Last President.

Lockwood died in 1918. Although he was not a major literary celebrity in his own lifetime, his books resurfaced many years later because readers became fascinated by their unusual titles and political themes.

His writing is often remembered less for realism than for its mix of adventure, fantasy, and satire. That blend gives his work an odd, historical charm for listeners interested in forgotten American fiction.