After working as a journalist and writing several unremarkable novels, Bellamy published "Looking Backward" in 1888. "Looking Backward" was one of the most commercially successful books published in the United States in the 19th century, and it especially appealed to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age. In the early 1890s, Bellamy established a newspaper known as "The New Nation" and began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging Populist Party. He published "Equality", a sequel to "Looking Backward", in 1897, and died the following year.