biography
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| lived:
| (1869–1950)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Garnett, Kansas, USA. He studied at Knox College, Galesburg IL, was admitted to the bar in 1891, and became a successful lawyer in Chicago. His most memorable work is the Spoon River Anthology (1915), a book of epitaphs in free verse in the form of monologues about a small town community. |
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