A Peep into the 20th Century — Christopher Davis

A National Book Award nominee, A Peep Into The 20th Century is about the first electrical execution in 1890 and the war between Edison and Westinghouse for the soul of electricity's first deliberate victim. ...a brutal case of man's inhumanity to man...because he is a beautiful writer he has conceived it as poetic horror story. (Sumner Locke Elliott) Author Biography: Christopher Davis is the author of 10 novels, two books of nonfiction, a children's book, two plays, and numerous essays. His novel A Peep Into The 20th Century was a National Book Award nominee. In 1991 he received the Career Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.