# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-lee-masters
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:06:14.871Z

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name: "Edgar Lee Masters"
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description: "Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), 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."
tagline: "American writer (1868–1950)"
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birthDate: "1868-08-23"
deathDate: "1950-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump