Archy and mehitabel quotes5/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Archy Was Real, but That’s Not His Original Name.Musicians: Marquis-Based Compositions Are Waiting. ![]() Coming Saturday: Archy’s Typewriter in Boston.A Stunning Dust Jacket by George Herriman.‘My Dear Miss Snook’ - An Incredible Letter.Was It the Ghost of Don Marquis? Or Archy?.A New Look for Archy (Several, In Fact).It’s archyFest! 100 Years of Archy and Mehitabel!.Happy Anniversary, Archy and Mehitabel!.Calvin Trillin Reads Archy and Mehitabel.Don Marquis Joins New York State Writers Hall of Fame.The Don Marquis Double Scotch and Prohibition Society.New Date: Don Marquis Weekend on Governors Island.Annual Meeting of the Don Marquis DS&P Society.Behind the Scene, with Big Bill, Archy and Mehitabel.“archy and mehitabel” has also been translated into Italian and German. Don's publisher, Doubleday, printed hardback editions through the early 1980s, and paperbacks since 1960 - in all, more than 75 printings in the United States, plus two dozen in England. ![]() > “archy and mehitabel” has never gone out of print since the book's first printing, in 1927. Don always used capital letters when writing about Archy and Mehitabel, although the titles of the three Archy books are correctly printed all-lowercase. > Archy the cockroach typed his name in lowercase letters because he couldn’t maneuver the shift key of Don's typewriter, but he clearly preferred to see his name in capital letters. > Don’s surname is pronounced MAR-kwiss, not Mar-KEE. In the decade before the wits of the Algonquin Round Table achieved fame, Marquis was one of the most popular writers in America: a pre-eminent New York newspaper columnist, humor writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Thanks for stopping by, an online omnibus with biographical bits and bibliographic notes, rare photos and illustrations, and the Internet's largest collection of works by Don Marquis. ![]()
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