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Langdon Smith (4 January 1858 - 8 April 1908) was an American journalist and celebrated "one-poem poet".〔Gardner, Martin (1962), "When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish", ''The Antioch Review'', Fall 1962; Reprinted with an update in Gardner's 2009 book, ''When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That'', New York, New York: Hill and Wang, pp 164-177.〕 ==Biography== According to Lewis Allen Brown's 1909 biographical sketch of Smith, :Langdon Smith was born in Kentucky Jan. 4, 1858 ... In boyhood he served in the Comanche and Apache wars as a trooper, his letters descriptive of these campaigns winning him his first newspaper position. Later he acted as a war correspondent during the extended fighting with the Sioux tribes.〔Lewis Allen Brown ed. and intro., ''Evolution. A Fantasy. 'When you were a tadpole and I was a fish.'' Boston: John W. Luce and Company, MCMIX, p. iii.〕 Gardner, who consulted ''Who's Who In America 1906-7'' adds that Smith went to school in Louisville, KY 1864-1872.〔 On February 12, 1894 Smith married Marie Antionette Wright, described as "a Louisville girl"〔 and soon after went to Cuba, reporting for the ''New York Herald'' on the guerilla operations of Antonio Maceo Grajales. He later returned to Cuba, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War (1898), reporting for the ''New York Journal''. According to Brown, :One of the first at the front, he was present at all the principal engagements, taking high rank as a war correspondent.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Langdon Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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