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Donald Robert Perry Marquis ( / ˈmɑːrkwɪs / MAR-kwis; July 29, 1878 – December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse.
Don Marquis (/ ˈ m ɑːr k w ɪ s / MAR-kwis; November 2, 1935 - September 13, 2022) was an American philosopher and deontologist whose main academic interests were in ethics and medical ethics. Marquis was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas until his death.
Don Marquis (born July 29, 1878, Walnut, Ill., U.S.—died Dec. 29, 1937, New York City) was a U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s.
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Archy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) are fictional characters created in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial".
Archy and Mehitabel, collection of humorous stories by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 in Marquis’s newspaper columns “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Sun and “The Lantern” in the New York Herald Tribune and published in book form in 1927.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about Don Marquis, a prolific and witty writer who created the famous cockroach and cat duo in his newspaper column. Explore his life, works and legacy on this website dedicated to his fans and friends.
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Who was Don Marquis and who cares? Donald Robert Perry Marquis 1878-1937, was a newspaper columnist, humorist, poet, playwright and author of about 35 books of which the best known are books of humorous poetry about Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat.
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