Edgar Guest
Edgar Guest (1881-1959) was born in Birmingham, England, but moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan when he was ten years old. At age fourteen he started working as a copy boy at the Detroit Free Press, where his first poem was published at age seventeen, and where he continued to work for more than sixty years. He went on to become a reporter and columnist, whose poetry and columns were featured in hundreds of newspapers around the country. He married Nellie Crossman in 1906 and the couple had three children. Edgar is said to have written some 11,000 poems during his lifetime, most of them topical, upbeat verse. Critics sometimes derided his work, but America adored him. He was known as the "People's Poet," served as Michigan's poet laureate, hosted a long-running radio show and TV show, and published more than twenty books of poetry.
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