Key facts
- Born
- ( 1868-08-23 ) August 23, 1868, Garnett, Kansas , U.S.
- Died
- March 5, 1950 (1950-03-05) (aged 81), Melrose Park, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Resting place
- Oakland cemetery, Petersburg, Illinois
- Occupation
- Poet biographer lawyer
- Language
- English
- Notable awards
- Robert Frost Medal (1942)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Garnett
- Occupation
- biographer
- Educated at
- Knox College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Robert Frost Medal
- Notable work
- Spoon River Anthology
- Genre
- epitaph
- Image
- Young Edgar Lee Masters 2.png
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- Edgar Lee Masters
- date of birth
- 1868-08-23
- date of death
- 1950-05-05
- Commons category
- Edgar Lee Masters
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Commons Creator page
- Edgar Lee Masters
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1898-00-00
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- described at URL
- findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/2166
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- P12749
- turbomachinery
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Encyclopedic overview
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), 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.
Life and career
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