During his lifetime Darrow was as renowned as a champion of workers' rights and of the poor and the marginalized as he was notorious for his irreverent agnosticism and his political muckraking. Even as he sought the public spectacle of sensational trials, however, he yearned to supplement his legal reputation with a literary one that might prove to be longer lasting. To this end he wrote many articles, essays, and short stories, as well as two novels and an autobiography. Though these works capture and preserve some part of Darrow the man, Darrow the literary figure achieved only modest success in his own time and has been largely forgotten.
Clarence Seward Darrow was born on 18 April 1857 in Kinsman, Ohio.
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