David Lindsay

Biography

David Lindsay (1876–1945) was a Scottish author best known for A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), one of the most remarkable and original novels in the history of science fiction and philosophical fiction. The novel was a commercial failure on publication, selling fewer than six hundred copies, but was championed by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Harold Bloom, who called it one of the most neglected masterpieces of the twentieth century. Lindsay wrote several other novels, but none achieved the visionary intensity of Arcturus. He spent much of his life in relative poverty and obscurity.