1922. Marquis, American newspaperman and humorist, who was an uninhibited enemy of prohibition. His most memorable writings are his stories and verses featuring Archy the transmigrated cockroach and Mehitabel the cat. Some of Marquis's funniest verses are included in this volume, which contains clever sonnets, the poems in the Famous Love Affairs and more than a dozen other smirky stories that take their cue from improbable sources such as the Bible and the writings of Homer and Shakespeare. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.