6Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) was an American lawyer and writer. As a writer, he is particularly known today for his Baron Trump children's novels. However, he wrote other children's novels, a collection of poetry (In Varying Mood: Jetsam, Flotsam, and Ligan), a dystopian novella (1900: The Last President), and several other works. Laconics of Cult is Lockwood's critique of organized religions, with their "shadowy gods on their shadowy thrones," and his attempt at creating a "New Cult" of the "Immortal Human."