Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Spoon River Anthology was an imitation of the Greek Anthology, a collection of some 4,500 poems about the dead. (Source.)
In addition to his poetry, Edgar Lee Masters was once a lawyer, partnering with famed attorney Clarence Darrow. (Source.)
Spoon River the city doesn't exist, but Spoon River… the river, does. It flows by Lewistown, Illinois, where Edgar Lee Masters grew up. (Source.)