Henry Chapin (1894-1983) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and was raised in Springfield, MA. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1917. After two years in the United States Army and a brief stint as a reporter for The New York Post, he married and moved to England where he lived and wrote for the next five years.
Chapin's books of poetry traced the exploration of America in epic verse, beginning with Leif Saga, published in 1934, which recounted Viking explorations, and continuing to the settlement of the West, described in his 1970 work, To the End of West.
Chapin’s literary friends included Robert Frost and Robert Graves. He died in Peterborough, NH at the age of 89.
