Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

He was class president at Shawnee High School and participated in sports while also working for the local newspaper. born July 2 1914 who died by suicide in 1936 and daughter Ruth Helen. Feeling confined to the small town and his increasing more open-minded views he left school before graduation and moved to Chicago.

His best-known work Titans of Literature appeared in 1932. In his last few years of life Rascoe worked as a television reviewer.