Trivia

Pictured on an 8¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the American Arts series, issued 13 August 1973.

Before turning to writing he had practiced medicine and been a forester.

Did not care to revisit works that he had completed. He once said, "It's a pleasure to write, but after a thing has been written I hate to see it again; poems are the sort of children it is delightful to beget, dreary to educate".

Poet Carl Sandburg once called him "bigger than Balboa" because his stark powerful words helped rediscover and immortalize the Pacific Ocean.

Tor House, his home in Carmel, CA, overlooked the rocky Pacific Ocean shoreline. He had refused to hook it up to electrical power until 1949, when it became difficult to purchase wicks for his candles and stove.

American poet and playwright.

He and wife Una had twin boys in 1916. A daughter born earlier did not survive infancy.