The Doomsman (Esprios Classics)

William Gilbert van Tassel Sutphen (1861-1945) was an American playwright librettist novelist and editor an authority and author of publications on golf and eventually an Episcopalian minister. Sutphen was born in Philadelphia on 11 May 1861. His parents were the Rev. Morris Crater Sutphen and Eleanor (Brush) Sutphen. He went to Princeton University and graduated in 1882. Sutphen wrote several novels the most famous of which was The Doomsman a science fiction novel in the post-apocalyptic subgenre. The scholar Mike Davis has suggested that Sutphen purloined ideas and scenes for this book from an earlier post-apocalyptic novel After London by the English writer Richard Jeffries.