The author of several novels, including The Chronic Loafer and A Drone and a Dreamer, Nelson M. Lloyd was born in1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked as a writer for the New York Evening Sun from 1892 to 1909. Lloyd graduated from the Pennsylvania State College in 1892 with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. While at Penn State, he was the editor of The Free Lance, the student-run newspaper. At the New York Evening Sun, Lloyd covered the Portsmouth Peace Conference after the Russo-Japanese War, and accompanied William Jennings Bryan on several trips regarding the conference. Lloyd died in 1933 at the age of 60.
From the description of Nelson M. Lloyd papers, 1860-1910. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 695441748
