Male : Poet and dramatist. Married Ada Hitchcock in 1916. Lived in Europe 1923-8. Editor of Fortune Magazine in New York 1929-38

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Glencoe, Illinois

Date of Birth : 1892 Date of Death : 1982 Age : 90

Other Work : Librarian of Congress, Washington DC 1939-44. Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard 1949-62

Education : Yale & Harvard (Law)

1915-1930
Class Poem (1915 Harvard Univ) - single leaf
Songs for a Summer's Day : A Sonnet Cycle (1915)
The Tower of Ivory (1917 Yale UP) - 750 Hardbound
The Happy Marriage & Other Poems (1924 Houghton Mifflin, Boston)
The Pot of Earth (1925 Houghton Mifflin) - 100
Nobodaddy : A Play (1926 Dunster House, Cambs, Mass) - 750. W A Dwiggins
Streets in the Moon (1926 HM) - 600
The Hamlet of A Macleish (1928 Boston)
Einstein (1929 Black Sun Press, Paris) - Ltd Ed 150
New Found Land : Fourteen Poems(1930)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)

1931-1940
Before March (1932 Knopf, Borzoi Chap Book)
(Ed by the Editors of Fortune) Housing America (1932)
The Conquistador (1932 Houghton Mifflin) - Pulitzer Prize
Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller's City (1933 John Day Pamphlet, NY)
Elpenor (1933)
Poems 1924-1933 (1933)
Poems (1935)
Panic : A Play in Verse (1935) (1936 London)
(Ed by the Editors of Fortune) Jews in America (1936)
Public Speech : Poems (1936)
The Fall of the City : A Verse Play for Radio (1937 Farrar & Rinehart NY)
(Ed by the Editors of Fortune) Background of War (1937)
Land of the Free - USA (1938)
Air Raid : A Verse Play for Radio (1938)
America was Promises (1939 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY)
The Irresponsibles : A Declaration (1940)

1941-1950
A Time to Speak : Selected Prose (1941 US)
The Next Harvard, As Seen by Macleish (1941)
The American Cause (1941)
A Time to Act : Selected Addresses (1943)
Colloquy for the States (1943)
The Irresponsibles (1944 Duell)
The American Story : ten Radio Scripts (1944)
Act Five & Other Poems (1948) (1950 Bodley Head)
(Ed) Martha Hilliard MacLeish (1856-1947) (1949 PP, Geneva, NY)
Poetry and Opinion : The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound - A Dilaogue on the Role of Poetry (1950)

1951-1960
Freedom is the Right to Choose : An Inquiry into the Battle for the American Future (1951)
Collected Poems 1917-1952 (1952)
The Trojan Horse (1952) - Play
This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953 US) - Play
Songs for Eve (1954 Houghton Mifflin)
Poetry and Journalism (1958)
J B : A Play in Verse (1958)

1961-1970
Poetry and Experience (1960)
Three Short Plays (1961)
Poetry and Experience (1961)
(Ed) Felix Frankfurter : Law and Politics (1962)
Collected Poems (1963)
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (1964 US) - Edited by Warren V Busch
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
Herakles : A Play in Verse (1967)
An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts - An Outdoor Play (1967)
A Continuing Journey (1968)
The Great American frustration (1968)
The Wild Old Wicked Man & Other Poems (1969)

After 1971
Scratch (1971) - Play
The Human Season : selected Poems 1926-1972 (1972)
The Great American Fourth of July Parade (1975) - Play
New and Collected Poems 1917-1976 (1976 Boston)
Riders of the Earth : Essays & Reminiscences (1978)
Letters 1807-1982 (1983)

READING
Arthur Mizener : A Catalogue of the First Editions of MacLeish (1938)
Signi Lenea Falk : Archibald MacLeish (1965 Twayne NY)
Grover C Smith : Macleish (1971)
Edward J Mullahy : MacLeish - A Checklist (1973)