About
Playwright and poet whose most successful works for the stage include "The Great Divide" and "The Faith Healer."
Before Fame
He studied at Harvard University, where he received the George B. Sohier Prize for literature.
Trivia
He taught English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago in the early 1900s.
Family Life
He married Harriet Converse Tilden in 1909, a year before he succumbed to brain cancer.
Associated With
Carl Sandburg was another well-known, Midwestern-born poet who spent time in Chicago.
