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American journalist and humorist whose work was collected in volumes such as archy and mehitabel (1927).
| 1921 | The Old Soak. The New York Sun humor columnist's most famous work is this collection of the misadventures and observations of a town drunk. Marquis would also adapt it as a successful play in 1922 and produce a sequel, The Old Soak's History of the World (1924). Marquis's folksy, satirical poetry appeared in such volumes as Dreams and Dust (1915), Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n Smith (1921), Poems and Portraits (1922), and The Awakening (1924). |
| 1927 | archy and mehitabel. The popular columnist's humorous verse observations of the contemporary scene are delivered from the perspective of a literary cockroach (who types in lowercase letters because it is unable to work the shift key on a typewriter) and a gadfly cat. Several popular sequels would follow, collected in The Lives and Times of archy and mehitabel (1940). |
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"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"
"A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings."
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
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Don Marquis
Don Marquis (July 29, 1878 Walnut, Illinois - December 29, 1937 New York City) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is best remembered for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis (pronounced "mark' wis", not "mar kee") grew up in Walnut, Illinois. His brother David died in 1892 at the age of 20; his father James did so in 1897. After graduating Walnut high school in 1894, he attended the The Knox Academy, a defunct preparatory program run by Knox College, in 1896, but left after three months.
In 1909, Marquis married Reina Melcher, with whom he had a son, Robert Marquis (1915 - 1921), and a daughter, Barbara Marquis (1918 - 1931). Reina died on December 2, 1923. Three years later he married the actress Marjorie Potts Vonnegut. She died in her sleep on October 25, 1936. Marquis died of a stroke after having suffered three earlier strokes that left him partly disabled.
On August 23, 1943, the United States Navy christened a Liberty ship, the USS Don Marquis (IX-215), in his memory.
Marquis joined The Evening Sun in 1912 and edited for the next eleven years a daily column "The Sun Dial". In 1922 he left The Evening Sun (shortened to The Sun in 1920) for the New York Tribune (renamed the New York Herald Tribune in 1924), where his daily column, "The Tower" (later "The Lantern") was a great success. He drew cartoons for The New Yorker, and contributed regular columns to the New York Sun and the Saturday Evening Post.
Marquis's best loved creation was Archy, a cockroach who allegedly left poems on Marquis's typewriter by jumping on the keys, and Archy's best friend the cat named Mehitabel. Friends of Archy and Mehitabel include Pete the Pup (not to be confused with the same author's Pete the Parrot), and an egomaniacal toad named Warty Bliggins.
Marquis was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote (or contributed posthumously) to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak, and Skippy. The 1926 film The Cruise of the Jasper B was supposedly based on his 1916 novel of the same name, although the plots have little in common.
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