Author of Spoon River Anthology, a bestselling free-verse work. His numerous other poetry volumes and prose works include The Golden Fleece of California (poems); Skeeters Kirby (novel); and Lincoln: The Man (biography).
After sitting for the Illinois bar exam, he began his legal career in Chicago. He published his debut literary work, A Book of Verses, in 1898.
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He was born in Garnett, Kansas to a Lawyer father. He died at the age of eighty-one in Mel Rose Park, Pennsylvania.
His Spoon River Anthology was adapted for radio and narrated by william Conrad.
