SOURCE: “Crossing Spoon River,” in Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 193-216.
In the following excerpt, Putzel examines Masters's friendship with William Marion Reedy, founder of the St. Louis weekly the Mirror, and Reedy's involvement with the publication of Spoon River.
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