Morgan Robertson Net Worth
Morgan Robertson Net Worth is
$1.6 Million
Morgan Robertson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Morgan Andrew Robertson (September 30, 1861 – March 24, 1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels and the self-claimed inventor of the periscope. He was the son of Andrew Robertson, a ship captain on the Great Lakes, and Amelia (Glassford) Robertson.Morgan went to sea as a cabin boy and was in the merchant service from 1866 to 1877, rising to first mate. Tiring of life at sea, he studied jewelry making at Cooper Union in New York City and worked for 10 years as a diamond setter. When that work began to impair his vision, he turned to writing sea stories, placing his work in such popular magazines as McClure's and the Saturday Evening Post. Robertson never made much money from his writing, a circumstance that greatly embittered him. Nevertheless, from the early 1890s until his death in 1915 he supported himself as a writer and enjoyed the company of artists and writers in a small circle of New York's bohemia. Robertson was found dead of heart disease in an Atlantic City hotel room.He is best known for his short novel Futility, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries an insufficient number of lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of almost everyone on board. There are some similarities to the real-life disaster of the RMS Titanic. The book was published fourteen years before the actual Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912 and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. | Date Of Birth | September 30, 1861 |
| Died | 1915-03-24 |
| Place Of Birth | Oswego, New York, USA |
| Profession | Writer |
| Star Sign | Libra |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He wrote a short story called 'Futility' in 1898. It was about an unsinkable luxury liner called the 'Titan' that strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks into the sea. After the sinking under eerily similar circumstances of the 'Titanic' in 1912, it was re-published as 'The Wreck of the Titan'. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters of Men | 1923 | novel | |
| The Closing of the Circuit | 1915 | Short story | |
| The Enemies | 1915 | Short story |
Known for movies
The Closing of the Circuit (1915)
as Writer
The Enemies (1915)
as Writer
Masters of Men (1923)
as Writer