“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone.”
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…