Morgan Robertson

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Morgan Robertson

Morgan Andrew Robertson (born September 30, 1861 - March 24, 1915 in Atlantic City ) was an American author. He has written both short stories and novels.

Life

Robertson was born the son of ship captain Andrew Robertson and his wife Ruth Amelia Glassford. He went to sea at the age of five and worked his way up from cabin boy to boatman. In 1877 he turned his back on merchant shipping and learned how to make jewelry at Cooper Union College in New York City . He practiced his craft for ten years.

Career

Robertson published his first novel in 1894. He is best known for his novel Futility ( Titan. A love story on the high seas ), which appeared in 1898. The novel describes the fate of the ship Titan , which is similar to that of the Titanic in many ways. In addition to the similarity of names, the ships are similar in size and number of passengers, both sink in the North Atlantic after the collision with an iceberg and carry too few lifeboats with them. However, Robertson published his novel 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic. Although the stories also differ in many ways, the novel earned Robertson a reputation as a clairvoyant. To this day, it is believed in esoteric circles that he had a vision.

death

Morgan Robertson was found dead in his room at the Alamac Hotel in Atlantic City on March 24, 1915. He died at the age of 53, presumably from an overdose of the toxic mercury (I) iodide , which was often added to drugs at the time. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn .

Works

Novels

  • A Tale of a Halo (1894)
  • Futility (1898)
  • Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan (1898) ( digitized at Project Gutenberg )
  • Masters of Men: A Romance of the New Navy (1901)
  • Shipmates (1901)
  • Sinful Peck (1903)
  • The Grain Ship (1914)
  • Over the Border (1914)
  • Beyond the Spectrum (1914)

Short story collections

  • The Three Laws and the Golden Rule (1898)
  • Spun Yarn (1898)
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread: And Other Tales of the Sea (1899)
  • Down to the Sea (1905)
  • Country Ho! (1905)

Short stories

  • The Battle of the Monsters (1899)
  • The Dollar (1905)

Autobiography

  • Morgan Robertson: The Man (1915)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Eich: "If you survive, please pray for me". Robertson's Futility and the Titanic . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 14, 2012, Z 3
personal data
SURNAME Robertson, Morgan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robertson, Morgan Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1861
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1915
Place of death Atlantic City