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Edgar Lee Masters: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born August 23, 1868 • Kansas
Died March 5, 1950 (aged 81) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “Epigrams from the Greek Anthology” • “Spoon River Anthology”
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance

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Edgar Lee Masters
Petersburg: boyhood home of Edgar Lee Masters
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Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
American writer
Mary Austin.
Mary Austin
American writer
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Marya Mannes
American author and critic
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
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Floyd Dell
American novelist and journalist
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.
James Baldwin
American author
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet

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