Edgar Lee Masters

Poet

Birthday August 23, 1868

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Kansas

DEATH DATE Mar 5, 1950 (81)

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About

Author of Spoon River Anthology, a bestselling free-verse work. His numerous other poetry volumes and prose works include The Golden Fleece of California (poems); Skeeters Kirby (novel); and Lincoln: The Man (biography).

Before Fame

After sitting for the Illinois bar exam, he began his legal career in Chicago. He published his debut literary work, A Book of Verses, in 1898.

Trivia

He received the Mark Twain Silver Medal in 1936.

Family Life

He was born in Garnett, Kansas to a lawyer father. He died at the age of eighty-one in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.

Associated With

His Spoon River Anthology was adapted for radio and narrated by William Conrad.