Jenkins, the daughter of a lawyer in Chicago, and had three children. Masters attended The Knox Academy from 1889-1890, a defunct preparatory program run by Knox College, but was forced to leave due to his family's inability to finance his education.Īfter working in his father's law office, he was admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, where he established a law partnership with Kickham Scanlan in 1893. It gained a huge popularity, but shattered his position as a respectable member of establishment. Spoon River was Masters's revenge on small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness. The culture around Lewistown, in addition to the town's cemetery at Oak Hill, and the nearby Spoon River were the inspirations for many of his works, most notably Spoon River Anthology, his most famous and acclaimed work. In 1880 they moved to Lewistown, Illinois, where he attended high school and had his first publication in the Chicago Daily News. The family soon moved back to his paternal grandparents' farm near Petersburg in Menard County, Illinois. Dexter and Hardin Wallace Masters in Garnett, Kansas, his father had briefly moved to set up a law practice.
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