Kerr, Artemus P
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1851-?1901) US 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 20 August 1901 [but Ward appears in Indianapolis street directories up to 1920, casting doubt on this date]
works
- The Lost Tribes and the Land of Nod: An Original Natural Gas Story (Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Newspaper Union, 1897) [chap: hb/]
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