On Growing Old - Don writes in "The Almost Perfect State" about how he hopes to grow old.On Being 55 - Don writes about achieving his 55th year.Don writes about his days at Knox College.Don performed at half time at the 1928 Stanford Big Game.Don writes about "My Heart's Desire" in SUCCESS Magazine, 1925.Norman Rockwell illustrates Don's short story "Willie Takes a Step" 1935 The American Magazine.The Walnut Public Library writes about Don.Biography compiled by Biography Magazine."O Rare Don Marquis," by Edward Anthony (Doubleday, 1962).Chronology and Bibliography compiled by Bill McCollum, editor of "The Selected Letters of Don Marquis".Years in Walnut, Illinois, where Don was raised.įor a superb introduction to Don's The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel, click here to read a review by e b white at For more about Don, see The Ennes and Marquis families were next-door neighbors for many Jim's grandfather, Lindsey Theodore Ennes (1886-1960). James Marquis, who was a respected elder neighbor and mentor of
was named not after Don, but after Don's father, Dr. James Marquis Ennes, Jr., because he was named after his father, James Marquis Ennes, Sr.
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Although not related by blood, Jim's full name is
This page is a creation of Jim Ennes, a longtimeĪdmirer and namesake of Don's. The group shared cocktails, dinner, conversation, speeches, stories about Don, and Baked Beans Ambrosia prepared exactly as Don says beans should be prepared in The Almost Perfect State. Among the celebrants were Frank Herbert, author of the Dune trilogy William McCollum, Jr., editor of The Selected Letters of Don Marquis (Northwoods Press) and the now-defunct Don Marquis Newsletter Bob Lyon of The Non-Profit Press who published Don's play Everything's Jake in honor of the occasion and Jim Ennes, author of Assault on the Liberty (Random House), who proudly shares Don's name and maintains this web site. Though largely forgotten today, in his time Don Marquis was often described asĪmerica's most popular and best-loved columnist, playwright, humorist and author.ĭon still had enough fans in 1978, 41 years after his death, that several dozen people assembled in Port Townsend, Washington, to celebrate his 100th birthday. Don's workĪppeared regularly in the New York Sun and the Saturday Evening Post,Īmong other places. Search this site or the world for any word or stringĭonald Robert Perry Marquis 1878-1937, was a newspaperĬolumnist, humorist, poet, playwright and author of about 35 books of which the best knownĪre books of humorous poetry about Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat.
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Hermione, The Old Soak and other timeless American treasuresĪrchy at work on Don's typewriter Click picture for full size image Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, Hermione, the Old Soak and more The Creator of Archy & Mehitabel, Freddy the Rat, Warty Bliggens the Toad,
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