Forced to drop out of high school to help support his family,
Edgar A. Guest started his long career at the Detroit
Free Press as a copyboy. He eventually wrote a daily
column, “Breakfast Table Chat,” that included his own verse.
These poems about everyday life were immensely popular
throughout the country. A prolific writer of over 11,000
poems, Guest humbly called himself “a newspaper man who wrote
verses.”
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