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Lawrence Daniel Fogg

1879–1914

A British-born journalist and satirist, he brought newspaper wit and playful fantasy together in The Asbestos Society of Sinners, an imaginative journey through the underworld. Though his life was brief, his work reflects the lively humor of the early twentieth-century press.

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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 was the son of Isaac Fogg and Rosina Glossop Goodinson Fogg. He built his career in journalism, editing Home and Flowers in Springfield, Ohio, and later serving as an assistant editor at the Springfield Union in Massachusetts.

Fogg also worked as an editor for the Windham Company and edited the Ocean Grove Times in New Jersey. His best-known book, The Asbestos Society of Sinners, published in 1906, was a comic fantasy about the diversions of the underworld and was dedicated to writer John Kendrick Bangs.

He died on February 12, 1914, at the age of 34. His surviving work offers a spirited glimpse of the satirical, newspaper-connected literary culture of his era.