“The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.”
About Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940
In the last week of December 1898, an aging schoolteacher in California completed a poem that would transform American literature and launch a national debate about labor, justice, and the human cost of industrial progress. Within weeks, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe" catapulted him from obscurity to…