Nelson Lloyd

Born in Philadelphia in 1873, Nelson M. Lloyd studied electrical engineering at the Pennsylvania State College and graduated in 1892. While he was a student, he edited The Free Lance, the college newspaper, an early sign of the writing career that would define his life.

Lloyd went on to work for the New York Evening Sun in the 1890s and 1900s. During those years he built a career as both a journalist and a fiction writer, covering major events including the Portsmouth Peace Conference after the Russo-Japanese War, and traveling with William Jennings Bryan on related trips.

He also published many short stories and several novels, including The Chronic Loafer, A Drone and a Dreamer, Mrs. Radigan, David Malcolm, and The Soldier of the Valley. He died in 1933 at age 60, leaving behind work that reflects the pace and color of American magazine and newspaper writing of his era.