A Heap o' Livin': 'Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out''

Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England on August 20th 1881.

In 1891 the family moved to the United States. Guest began his career at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then moved on to reporting. The paper published his first poem on 11th December 1898.

Guest became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, he was read widely and avidly throughout North America. His intrinsically sentimental, optimistic poems brought him a large audience and following as well as the mon...