Cheney, John Vance

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 484 words | Copyright

Cheney, John Vance (1848–1922), born in New York, moved to California (1876), where he became known for his conventional lyric poems collected in Thistle‐Drift (1887), Wood Blooms (1888), and Poems (1905). He was a friend of Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham, and John Muir. He was librarian of the San Francisco Public Library (1887–94) and of the Newberry Library (1894–1909). His essays appeared in The Golden Guess (1892) and That Dome in Air (1895).

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