Don Marquis (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth:

29 July 1878, Walnut, Illinois, USA more

Date of Death:

29 December 1937, Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, USA more

Trivia:

Remembered for creating the characters Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel... more

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As a newspaper columnist for the New York Evening Sun, Marquis created the characters of Archy, a cockroach and poet who couldn't manipulate a typewriter's shift key and his best friend, a cat named Mehitable. The "archy stories" have been collected and published in a number of volumes, including "archy and mehitabel" (1927), "archys life of mehitabel" (1933), "archy does his part" (1935), "the lives and times of archy and mehitabel" (1940), "archyology" (1996), and "archyology ii" (1998) and "The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel" (2006). more

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Genres:

Drama | Comedy | Family | Musical more

Plot Keywords:

Melodrama | Based On Play | Cat | Child more