Edgar Lee Masters Mitch Miller (Esprios Classics): Illustrated by John Sloan

Edgar Lee Masters (18681950) was an American attorney, 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, twentyone books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman. The culture around Lewistown, in addition to the towns cemetery at Oak Hill, and the nearby Spoon River were the inspirations for many of his works, most notably Spoon River Anthology, his most famous and acclaimed work. It gained a huge popularity, but shattered his position as a respectable member of establishment. | Edgar Lee Masters Mitch Miller (Esprios Classics): Illustrated by John Sloan