Editing Edgar Lee Masters (section)

{{short description|American poet (1868-1950)}}
{{redirect|Edgar Masters|the Australian footballer|Edgar Masters (footballer)}}
{{redirect|Webster Ford|the American athlete and journalist|Malcolm Webster Ford}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Edgar Lee Masters
| image            = Young Edgar Lee Masters 2.png
| caption          = Masters as a young man
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1868|8|23}}
| birth_place      = [[Garnett, Kansas]], U.S.<ref name=poets.org/>
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1950|3|5|1868|8|23}}
| death_place      = [[Melrose Park, Pennsylvania]], U.S.<ref name=poets.org/>
| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* biographer
* lawyer
}}
| awards           = [[Robert Frost Medal]] <small>(1942)</small>
| resting_place    = Oakland cemetery, Petersburg, Illinois
| language         = English
}}
 
'''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]].