Began as a column for The New York Sun in 1916, Archy, literary cockroach who types out vers libre by banging his head against the keys (but can't reach the shift key), and Mehitabel, the sultry cat reincarnated from Cleopatra, have since gained a worldwide following. The now classic tale of archy the cockroach and mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature.
Don Marquis (1878–1937) was a journalist and columnist in New York City and the author of several novels, short-story collections, and plays.
Marquis was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote (or contributed posthumously) to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak and Skippy. Marquis's best-known creation was Archy, a fictional cockroach (developed as a character during 1916) who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, and who supposedly left poems on Marquis's typewriter by jumping on the keys.
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Began as a column for The New York Sun in 1916, Archy, literary cockroach who types out vers libre by banging his head against the keys (but can't reach the shift key), and Mehitabel, the sultry cat reincarnated from Cleopatra, have since gained a worldwide following. The now classic tale of archy the cockroach and mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature.
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Don Marquis (1878–1937) was a journalist and columnist in New York City and the author of several novels, short-story collections, and plays.
Marquis was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote (or contributed posthumously) to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak and Skippy. Marquis's best-known creation was Archy, a fictional cockroach (developed as a character during 1916) who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, and who supposedly left poems on Marquis's typewriter by jumping on the keys.
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