Born in Clifton Springs, New York, he was raised in Bangor, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1911 where he was "editor of The Quill and a devoted student of the classics".
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A Reader's Digest Condensed Books edition was also published in the Fall of 1956, with illustrations by Charles Hawes.