Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters was born in Kansas in 1868 and grew up in two small Illinois towns, Petersburg and Lewistown. For lack of money, he left university after a year, joined his father's practice, and then practised law for nearly thirty years in Chicago, where from 1903 to 1911 he was the partner of Clarence Darrow. He left the bar in 1920 for New York. He then wrote dozens of books that did not find the same audience, including a hostile and very poorly received biography of Lincoln. He died in Pennsylvania in 1950.

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• PoetrySpoon River AnthologyEdgar Lee Masters · 1915LiteraturePublic domain