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Born in August 23, 1868 / Died in March 5, 1950 / United States / English

Bibliography

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  • A Book of Verses, Way & Williams, 1898.
  • Maximilian: A Play in Five Acts, Badger, 1902.
  • The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Hammersmark, 1904.
  • (Under pseudonym Dexter Wallace) The Blood of the Prophets (poetry), Rooks, 1905.
  • Althea: A Play in Four Acts, Rooks, 1907.
  • The Trifler: A Play, Rooks, 1908.
  • The Leaves of the Tree: A Play, Rooks, 1909.
  • Eileen: A Play in Three Acts, Rooks, 1910.
  • (Under pseudonym Webster Ford) Songs and Sonnets, Rooks, 1910.
  • The Locket: A Play in Three Acts, Rooks, 1910.
  • The Tread of Idleness: A Play in Four Acts, Rooks, 1911.
  • (Under pseudonym Webster Ford) Songs and Sonnets: Second Series, Rooks, 1912.
  • Spoon River Anthology (poetry; originally published inReedy's Mirror, under pseudonym Webster Ford), Macmillan, 1915, enlarged edition, 1916, new edition, 1944.
  • Songs and Satires (poetry), Macmillan, 1916.
  • The Great Valley (poetry), Macmillan, 1916.
  • Toward the Gulf (poetry), Macmillan, 1918.
  • Starved Rock (poetry), Macmillan, 1919.
  • Mitch Miller (novel), Macmillan, 1920.
  • Domesday Book (long poem), Macmillan, 1920.
  • The Open Sea (poetry), Macmillan, 1921.
  • Children of the Market Place (novel), Macmillan, 1922.
  • Skeeters Kirby (novel), Macmillan, 1923.
  • The Nuptial Flight (novel), Boni & Liveright, 1923.
  • Mirage (novel), Boni & Liveright, 1924.
  • The New Spoon River (poetry), Boni & Liveright, 1924.
  • Selected Poems, Macmillan, 1925.
  • Lee: A Dramatic Poem, Macmillan, 1926.
  • Kit O'Brien (novel), Boni & Liveright, 1927.
  • Levy Mayer and the New Industrial Era (biography), Yale University Press, 1927.
  • Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem, Appleton, 1928.
  • The Fate of the Jury: An Epilogue to Domesday Book (long poem), Appleton, 1929.
  • Gettysburg, Manila, Acoma (three plays), Liveright, 1930.
  • Lichee Nuts (poetry), Liveright, 1930.
  • Lincoln: The Man (biography), Dodd, Mead, 1931.
  • Godbey: A Dramatic Poem, Dodd, Mead, 1931.
  • The Serpent in the Wilderness (poetry), Sheldon Dick, 1933.
  • The Tale of Chicago (history), Putnam, 1933.
  • Dramatic Duologues: Four Short Plays in Verse, Samuel French, 1934.
  • Richmond: A Dramatic Poem, Samuel French, 1934.
  • Invisible Landscapes (poetry), Macmillan, 1935.
  • Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America (biography), Scribners, 1935.
  • Poems of People, Appleton-Century, 1936.
  • The Golden Fleece of California (poetry), Countryman, 1936.
  • Across Spoon River: An Autobiography, Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
  • Whitman (biography), Scribners, 1937.
  • The Tide of Time (novel), Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.
  • The New World (poetry), Appleton-Century, 1937.
  • Hymn to the Unknown God, New Age Ministry of Religious Research, ca. 1937.
  • Mark Twain: A Portrait, Scribners, 1938.
  • More People (poetry), Appleton-Century, 1939.
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Living Thoughts of Emerson, Longmans, Green, 1940.
  • Illinois Poems, James A. Decker, 1941.
  • The Sangamon (novel), Farrar & Rinehart, 1942.
  • Along the Illinois (poetry), James A. Decker, 1942.
  • (Contributor) Hardin W. Masters, Edgar Lee Masters: A Centenary Memoir-Anthology, A. S. Barnes for the Poetry Society of America, 1972.
  • Poems, selected and edited by Denys Thompson, Chatto & Windus, 1972.
  • The Harmony of Deeper Music: Posthumous Poems of Edgar Lee Masters, edited by Frank K. Robinson, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1976.
  • The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters's Uncollected Spoon River Poems, edited by Herbert K. Russell, Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
  • Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition, edited by John E. Hallwas, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Also author of The Constitution and Our Insular Possessions, and Browning as a Philosopher, 1912. Contributor to magazines and newspapers under pseudonyms Lucius Atherton, Elmer Chubb, Webster Ford, Harley Prowler, Lute Puckett, and Dexter Wallace. Many of Masters's letters and papers are in the collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Other items are at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, and the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago.