Drayton, Henry S
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1840-1923) US medical doctor and author whose Lost World novel, In Oudemon: Reminiscences of an Unknown People, by an Occasional Traveler (1900), features a 100-year-old English colony within a beneath South America, which is technologically advanced, telepathic, socialist and Christian. [JC]
Henry Shipton Drayton
[Drayton's middle name has also been given as Shipman and Sinclair]
born Jersey City, New Jersey: 16 September 1840
died Jersey City, New Jersey: 7 April 1923
works
- In Oudemon: Reminiscences of an Unknown People, by an Occasional Traveler (New York: The Grafton Press, 1900) [hb/]
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