William Vaughn Moody

William Vaughn Moody was born in 1869 in Spencer, Indiana, and grew up in New Albany; he lost his mother in 1884 and his father two years later. He worked to pay for his studies, entered Harvard, where he co-edited the student magazine, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1893 and a master's degree in 1894. Attached to the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1907, he wrote a history of English literature with Robert Morss Lovett, published poems and two verse dramas, then left teaching for writing. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908 and married in 1909, he died in Colorado Springs in 1910.

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• TheatreThe Great DivideWilliam Vaughn Moody · 1906LiteraturePublic domain