Letter from Edgar Lee Masters, August 13, 1941
October 17, 2015First CORRESPONDENCE from Edgar Lee Masters, August 13, 1941
Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 – died, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950. 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.