Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters 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.

23 August 1868

Born on the same birth day (23 August): Atef Bseiso • Cristian Tudor • Dale Campbell-Savours • Edgar de Wahl • Evangelos Zappas • Frances Adaskin • George Kell • Jim Murphy • Lev Zelyony • Lil Yachty • Martin Grainger • Olga Govortsova • Queen Noor of Jordan • Roy Agnew • Roy Strong • Stephan Loboué • Tasos Mitropoulos • William Eccles (physicist)

Born in the same month (August 1868): Hong Beom-do • Hugo Eckener • Master C. V. V. • Paul Claudel • Willis R. Whitney