American poet, biographer, and dramatist Edgar Lee Masters was born #OTD in 1868.
He is best known for his Spoon River Anthology - a series of interconnected poems that collectively narrate the lives, secrets, and experiences of the fictional town of Spoon River. He also wrote biographies, including Lincoln: The Man, which controversially portrayed Abraham Lincoln in a negative light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Lee_Masters
Books by Edgar Lee Masters at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/584