My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!

Jenkins the daughter of a lawyer in Chicago and had three children. In 1915 the series was bound into a volume and re-titled Spoon River Anthology. In 1911 he started his own law firm despite the three years of unrest (1908–1911) due to extramarital affairs and an argument with Darrow.

In all Masters publiEdgar Lee Mastersd twelve plays twenty-one books of poetry six novels and six biographies including those of Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain Vachel Lindsay and Walt Whitman. Edgar Lee Masters (August 23 1868–March 5 1950) was an American poet biographer and dramatist.