About
American author and poet best known for his famous poem "Casey at the Bat." He published several of his other humorous poems in the New York Journal.
Before Fame
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and served as editor of The Harvard Lampoon.
Trivia
He worked as a humor columnist for The San Francisco Examiner in the late 1880s.
Family Life
He married Rosalind Buel Hammett when he was forty-nine years old.
Associated With
He worked for William Randolph Hearst at The San Francisco Chronicle.
