William Windsor

Born in 1857, William Windsor was an American author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on Loma, a Citizen of Venus (1897), an early science-fiction and utopian novel. Library and reference sources also connect him with later works on phrenology, including Phrenology, the Science of Character (1921).

Windsor was not only a novelist but also a public advocate for ideas that were popular in some reform and self-improvement circles of his time. Reference sources describe him as a lawyer and phrenologist, and his writing reflects that blend of storytelling, persuasion, and personality theory.

For modern listeners, Windsor is interesting less as a major literary figure than as a vivid example of a forgotten strand of American thought. His books bring together futuristic imagination, earnest advice, and now-discredited pseudoscience, making them unusual historical artifacts as well as curious reading.