About Frank Dempster Sherman
Lived 1860 – 1916 (aged 56). Frank Dempster Sherman was an American writer and poet.
Frank Dempster Sherman (May 6, 1860 – September 19, 1916), sometimes writing as Felix Carmen, was an American poet and academic.
Frank Dempster Sherman was born on May 6, 1860, in Peekskill, New York, to Lucy (MacFarland) and John Dempster Sherman. He attended Columbia College from 1879 to 1884, graduating with a PhB in architecture. American composer Caroline Holme Walker (1863–1955) used Sherman's text for her song "May Madrigal".
Publications Madrigals and Catches (1887) New Waggings of Old Tales, with John Kendrick Bangs (1888) Little-Folk Lyrics (1892) Lyrics of Joy (1904) A Southern Flight, with Clinton Scollard (1905) The Poems (1917)
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Who was Frank Dempster Sherman?
American poet and academic (1860–1916)
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Frank Dempster Sherman was born on 6 May 1860 in Peekskill.
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Frank Dempster Sherman died on 19 September 1916 in New York City.
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Frank Dempster Sherman was a writer and poet.
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Frank Dempster Sherman was American.
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