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): Dale Campbell-Savours • Edgar de Wahl • Eliza Carthy • Ernst Krenek • Gene Kelly • George Kell • Gretchen Whitmer • Halimah Yacob • Hamilton O. Smith • Jo Gwang-jo • Kim Matula • Lev Zelyony • Manuel Vidrio • Mark Bellhorn • Mark Hudson (musician) • Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada • Ogden L. Mills • Richard Sanders (actor) • Roger Greenaway • Vicky Leandros • Zoltán Czibor

Born in the same month (August 1868): Bernarr Macfadden • Constantine I of Greece • Ellen Roosevelt • Hong Beom-do • Hugo Eckener • Huntley Wright • Ladislaus Bortkiewicz • Master C. V. V. • Oskar Merikanto • Paul Claudel • Willis R. Whitney