Brooks, Byron A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1845-1911) US inventor (he invented the shift key for the typewriter) and author of Earth Revisited (1893), a Sleeper Awakes tale which espouses a somewhat garbled revision of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888); the reawakened protagonist, after falling in love with his nurse, realizes that she is the Reincarnation of a lost love. All ends well. [JC]
Byron Alden Brooks
born Theresa, New York: December 1845
died Middletown, Connecticut: 28 September 1911
works
- Earth Revisited (Boston, Massachusetts: Arena Publishing Co, 1893) [hb/]
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