Edgar Lee Masters
Playwright, Author
1868 – 1950
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Who was Edgar Lee Masters?
Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1868
Garnett - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Knox College, Illinois
- Died
- Mar 5, 1950
Elkins Park
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on July 23, 2013
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