Mitch Miller (Esprios Classics)

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) 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 twenty-one 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 town's 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.