BELLAMY, EDWARD (1850-1898), American author and social reformer, was born at Chicopee Falls (Mass.), March 25, 185o, and died there May 22, 1898. He studied at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and in Germany; was admitted to the bar in 1871, but soon became associate editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Union and then an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post. Although his first books were light fiction, such as Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (188o) and Miss Ludington's Sister (1884), his historical novel The Duke of Stockbridge (1900), with its sympathy for unfortunate debtors and the leaders of Shays' rebellion, showed the direction in which he was tending. By the time it was completed, he refused to allow it to be published by the local newspaper to which it was promised, expending all of his energy instead on social and economic reform. Looking Back ward, 2000—i887 (1888), the most popular of the American Utopian romances, was translated into several languages and has preserved his name until a day when many of the inventions he prophesied have become realities. Its sequel Equality (1897) and his attempts as writer, lecturer and politician to promote his com munistic theories under the title of "Nationalism" are, however, almost forgotten.