John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish seaman, a working class boy who showed promise in mathematics and eventually became a popular interpreter of Science. Sullivan wrote a tortured autobiography; studied Beethoven. Novelist, musician, esthete, "above all a dreamer."
Photo shows him as romantic artistic type, wild hair, sweater, etc. Abandoned interest in science and took to writing unpublished novels while living a reclusive life in a Surrey cottage. Died in 1937, reported (gleefully) by Time "in an advanced stage of syphylis." (Time obit a 23 37)