biography
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Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)kwis]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1937)
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| biography:
| Novelist, playwright, and poet, born in Walnut, Illinois, USA. He studied at Knox College, Galesburg, IL, and became a well-known literary journalist in New York City, writing for The Sun. He achieved fame as a comic writer in his column ‘The Sun Dial’ with the popular archy and mehitabel (1927), and archys life of mehitabel (1933), which follow the fortunes of Archy the cockroach who cannot reach the typewriter's shift key (hence the lower-case titles), and Mehitabel, an alley cat. Among his other works are poetry, prose, and plays, including The Old Soak (1916, dramatized 1926). |
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