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Don Marquis

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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 PagesShinbone AlleyThe 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.

Don Marquis Books

The Complete Works of Don Marquis book cover

The Complete Works of Don Marquis

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Archy and Mehitabel book cover

Archy and Mehitabel

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The Complete Works of Don Marquis book cover

The Complete Works of Don Marquis

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The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel book cover

The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel

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The Best of Archy and Mehitabel book cover

The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

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Archy and Mehitabel book cover

Archy and Mehitabel

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The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel book cover

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

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