Kerr, Artemus P

Entry updated 17 February 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1851-1901) US printer, publisher, poet and author of a spoof sf Satire, The Lost Tribes and the Land of Nod: An Original Natural Gas Story (1897 chap), whose narrator, after a Fantastic Voyage to an Island where he finds a Lost World containing the Lost Tribes of Israel and starts an industrial revolution. [JC]

Artemus P Kerr

born Rossville, Indiana: 15 February 1851

died Indianapolis, Indiana: 20 August 1901

works

• The Lost Tribes and the Land of Nod: An Original Natural Gas Story (Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Newspaper Union, 1897) [chap: hb/]

links

• Biography at whitecountyindiana.org
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

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