Ignatius Donnelly

Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) was a U.S. congressman and eccentric polymath whose Atlantis: The Antediluvian World launched the modern Atlantis myth, and whose novel Caesar’s Column (1890) is a vivid, apocalyptic dystopia of a future New York torn apart by class war. A major, strange figure at the intersection of speculation, politics and pseudo-science.