(1850-1898) US author and social critic. His utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 1888, was a huge bestseller and inspired wide public support for his political program of state socialism. He published a second utopian novel, Equality 1897.
Born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, US, Bellamy wrote for the New York Post and the Springfield Union. He founded the Springfield Daily News 1880 and later the New Nation but eventually, deeply concerned with the social problems of the day, he abandoned journalism to become a full-time author.