What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

He was class president at Shawnee High School and participated in sports while also working for the local newspaper. born July 2 1914 who died by suicide in 1936 and daughter Ruth Helen. Feeling confined to the small town and his increasing more open-minded views he left school before graduation and moved to Chicago.

His best-known work Titans of Literature appeared in 1932. In his last few years of life Rascoe worked as a television reviewer.