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Lawrence Daniel Fogg

An English-born journalist and editor, he left behind a single known novel: a witty, fantastical trip through Hades called The Asbestos Society of Sinners. His brief career moved through newspapers and magazines in the United States, giving his work a lively, satirical edge.

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The Asbestos Society of Sinners detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainment

The Asbestos Society of Sinners detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainment

by Lawrence Daniel Fogg

About the author

Born in Sheffield, England, on April 9, 1879, Lawrence Daniel Fogg became a journalist and editor whose career took him across several American publications. Reference sources describe him working with newspapers and magazines in places including New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Ohio.

Fogg is best remembered today for The Asbestos Society of Sinners (1906), a comic fantasy that follows a newspaper man into Hades and mixes satire, myth, and afterlife mischief. It appears to be the work most strongly associated with his name, and modern readers mainly encounter him through reprints and public-domain editions.

His life was short: bibliographic records list his death on February 12, 1914. Although little biographical detail seems to survive in widely available sources, the outline that remains suggests a writer shaped by newsroom energy, humor, and an early-20th-century taste for imaginative social satire.