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Speaking of Stories transforming
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DON MARQUIS Don Marquis (1878-1937) was born in Walnut, Illinois and worked as a teacher, a sewing-machine salesman a printer, and a railroad man before finding his way into newspapers. In 1916, he first introduced, in his column in the New York Sun, archy and mehitabel—a philosophical cockroach and a down-on-her-luck cat, portrayed in free verse ostensibly written by archy. Marquis also wrote novels, plays, poetry and satire. The poem in this anthology was his only work for The New Yorker. |