Reminiscences of Ellen Coyne Masters : oral history, 1971.

Biographical Note

Interviewee married Edgar Lee Masters.

Scope and Contents

Anecdotes of Edgar Lee Masters' early life; courtship and marriage, New York, N.Y., 1920s; husband's personality and creative approach; discussion of specific works, especially SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY and DOMESDAY BOOK; girlhood in Kansas City, Panama, and Missouri Ozarks; University of Chicago; Abbey Theatre, 1924; recollections of Theodore Dreiser, Vachel Lindsay, H.L. Mencken.

Subjects

• American literature--20th century.
• Earley, Elisabeth, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
• Masters, Ellen Coyne, 1899-
• Oral histories.

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