Don Marquis

Don Marquis, byname of Donald Robert Perry Marquis, (born July 29, 1878, Walnut, Ill., U.S.died Dec. 29, 1937, New York City), U.S. newspaperman, poet, and playwright, creator of the literary characters Archy, the cockroach, and Mehitabel, the cat, wry, down-and-out philosophers of the 1920s.