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(1852-1940) Poet. Edwin Markham lived in Westerleigh, New York.

Full Name

Edwin Markham

Locations

Richmond

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Lived in the neighborhood of Westerleigh in Staten Island, New York.

1852

BIRTH

Edwin Markham was born Charles Edward Anson Markham in Oregon City, Oregon, in 1852.

1899

LITWORK

The Man with the Hoe


Poem.

1899

LITWORK

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems


Collection of poetry.

1901

RESIDENCE

Markham moved to New York City in 1901, living first in Brooklyn, and then Staten Island.

1901

LITWORK

Lincoln and Other Poems


Collection of poetry.

1914

LITWORK

Children in Bondage


Prose.

1914

LITWORK

California the Wonderful


Prose.

1915

LITWORK

The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems


Collection of poetry.

1920

LITWORK

The Gates of Paradise


Collection of poetry.

1932

OTHER

Edwin Markham was honored on his 80th birthday with a party at Carnegie Hall.

1932

LITWORK

Eighty Poems at Eighty


Collection of poetry.

1940

DEATH

Edwin Markham died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940. His personal library and papers were left to Wagner College's Horrmann Library, located on Staten Island.

1940

INTERMENT

Edwin Markham was interred at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

1960

LITWORK

The Ballad of the Gallows Bird
Antioch Press.

Collectin of poetry.

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