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MICHAEL SIMS is the author most recently of AdamвЂ™s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book. After years of illness, including strokes that paralyzed him and prevented speech, Don Marquis died in 1937 in New York City. Marquis married Marjorie Vonnegut three years later she died in 1936. They had one son, who lived only six years, and one daughter, who lived only thirteen years. He married his first wife, Reina Melcher, in 1909. MarquisвЂ™s personal life was plagued with illness and loss. By far his best known works are the Archy and Mehitabel columns, which he collected into three volumes-Archy and Mehitabel (1927), ArchyвЂ™s Life of Mehitabel (1933), and Archy Does His Part (1935). Prefaces (1919) consists of forewords to imaginary books, and Chapters for the Orthodox (1934) is religious satire. His several plays include a successful run of The Old Soak (1922), in which he himself starred at one point and The Dark Hours (1924), which his second wife later directed in an unsuccessful Broadway production. He also collected the episodic adventures of his characters the Old Soak and Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers. (1916), and Off the Arm (1930)-and four short story collections. Marquis published three novels-DannyвЂ™s Own Story (1912), The Cruise of the Jasper B. In 1912 he launched his now legendary column вЂњThe Sun DialвЂќ in the New York Evening Sun and four years later Archy and Mehitabel began to appear. Marquis moved to New York City in 1909 and soon became a well-known journalist.

After short-lived stints on newspapers in Washington and Philadelphia, Marquis moved to Atlanta in 1902 and worked for the News, the Journal, and Uncle RemusвЂ™s Magazine. As a teenager he began working for local printing offices and newspapers.

In 1898 he briefly attended Knox College in nearby Galesburg, but he was largely self-educated. ' (from Wikipedia).DON MARQUIS was born in 1878, the second of four children of a physician in Walnut, Illinois.

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The two of them shared a series of day-to-day adventures that made satiric commentary on daily life in the city during the 1910s and 1920s. Archy's best friend was Mehitabel, an alley cat. Archy would climb up onto the typewriter and hurl himself at the keys, laboriously typing out stories of the daily challenges and travails of a cockroach.

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Archy whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left. 'Marquis introduced Archy into his daily newspaper column at New York's Evening Sun. There is a previous owner's name on the front inside cover. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. B&W Illustrations This is a mass market paperback book.

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