Madison Cawein was born at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 23rd of March,
1865. Was educated in the city and country schools about Louisville
and New Albany, Indiana. Graduated from the Male High School,
Louisville, in 1886, and the following year published his first
volume, called _Blooms of the Berry_. Since then he published some
thirty-odd volumes of prose and poetry, both in the United States and
England. He died in 1915.