Frank Marshall Davis

Frank Marshall Davis was born in December 31, 1905, in Arkansas City, Kansas. He became a writer, poet, editor, and journalist. His works were especially popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Growing up in southern Kansas, Davis discovered reading in the local public library. At Kansas State University he studied journalism and published his first poems. Davis patterned his free verse poetry style after the blues and jazz music he had heard in Kansas. As an editor, Davis worked for the Associated Negro Press. Frank Marshall Davis died in July 26, 1987 in Hawaii.