George Sterling

George Sterling (1869-1926), was born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and moved to California in 1890.  A poet who became a significant figure in Bohemian literary circles in northern California, and in the development of the artists' colony in Carmel, he was close friends with Ambrose Bierce, Jack London and Clark Ashton Smith among other California writers and poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bierce published Sterling's first poems in his "Prattle" column in William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, and arranged for the publication of A Wine of Wizardry in the September 1907 number of Cosmopolitan, which afforded Sterling some national notice.  Despite such famous mentors as Bierce and Ina Coolbrith, and his long association with London, Sterling himself never became well known outside California.

References

• Benediktsson, Thomas E. (1980).  George Sterling.  Boston: Twayne Publishers.  ISBN 0-8057-7313-4.
• Sterling, George (Joshi, S.T., ed.) (2003).  The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror.  New York: Hippocampus Press.  ISBN 0-9721644-6-4

External Links

• :  A brief biography of Sterling.
• :  A page by the poet's grand niece.
• :  A collection of Sterling's poems.