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Edgar Lee Masters

1868 - 1950

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Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Lee Masters is the 2,964th most popular writer (down from 2,582nd in 2019), the 4,269th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,282nd in 2019) and the 341st most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edgar Lee Masters ranks 2,964 out of 7,302Before him are Boris Pilnyak, Fernand Crommelynck, Mickey Spillane, Marcel Boulenger, Parthenius of Nicaea, and Philitas of Cos. After him are Pierre Bec, Maximilian Voloshin, George Ohsawa, Gisèle Halimi, Drago Jančar, and Sergei Nilus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Edgar Lee Masters ranks 117Before him are Marie Belloc Lowndes, H. J. R. Murray, Hugo Eckener, Marie Dressler, Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Ivan Regen. After him are Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Georgy Voronoy, Théodore Steeg, Sophia Hayden, Wilhelm Stekel, and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. Among people deceased in 1950, Edgar Lee Masters ranks 93Before him are Aliya bint Ali, Ulrich Graf, Alan Hale Sr., Joanni Perronet, Raymond Sommer, and Edwin Sutherland. After him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Théodore Steeg, John C. Woods, Joseph, Duke of Parma, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, and Edward Arthur Milne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edgar Lee Masters ranks 4,269 out of 20,380Before him are Kelly Craft (1962), Brian Tyler (1972), Wilder Penfield (1891), Anthony Franciosa (1928), Thomas Newman (1955), and Bobby Kimball (1947). After him are Chuck Billy (1962), Lee Hazlewood (1929), Moondog (1916), Kevin Federline (1978), Bob Seger (1945), and Bruce Davison (1946).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edgar Lee Masters ranks 341Before him are Carl Bernstein (1944), Richard Wright (1908), Joe Hill (1972), K. A. Applegate (1956), Willa Cather (1873), and Mickey Spillane (1918). After him are L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Bruce Sterling (1954), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), and Stephenie Meyer (1973).