![]() ![]() Olerich died by suicide, prompted in part by declining health. He wrote a range of other works as well, including one titled "Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar: An Experiment in Education," about his adopted daughter who was for a short time a celebrated child prodigy. Olerich was also a lawyer, farmer, teacher, and machinist he once earned a patent for an improved tractor. Olerich continued his utopian projections in two subsequent books, Modern Paradise (1915) and The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence (1923). ![]() The method was to build houses that could hold 1,000 people, who would collectively farm and work. In his best known novel, A Cityless and Countryless World (1893), a Martian lands on earth to teach humans how to create paradise. Henry Olerich (1851–1927) was a utopian author from Nebraska. ![]()
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