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Eugene Field was a prolific writer with a wide range, particularly in his poetry. But he never took himself too seriously and, as a resul...

Eugene Field wrote his poem "April Fool" a few days shy of the titular date: It was dated March 27, 1884. In his usual tongue-i...

O. Henry had been working for the Daily Post in Houston, Texas for only about three weeks when he heard of the death of his friend and ...

Eugene Field had planned to leave on a trip to Kansas City when he died unexpectedly at 5 o'clock in the morning on November 4, 1895....

Eugene Field had a fairly eclectic career as a poet, composing many humorous works as well as more serious verses. He worried, however...

St. Louis-born poet and humorist Eugene Field dated his poem "A Song for the Christmas Wind" as December 26, 1885. In it, he pe...

Certainly, Eugene Field did write a few serious poems but, for the most part, he was a humorist. Though it's easy to label his work as...

Eugene Field 's poem, "A Play On Words" is dated September 12, 1883.  Under the title, the Missouri-born poet added a subtitl...

The poet Eugene Field met the Polish actress Helena Modjeska in St. Louis in the 1870s, years before she moved to California and became an...

Eugene Field himself is mostly to blame for the confusion over his birth date. He is generally presumed to have been born on September 2, 1...