The Man from Jericho

Edwin Carlile Litsey (1874-1970) was an American author and poet. He grew up and lived near Lebanon, in Marion County, where he worked in the National Bank, first as runner and later as bank officer. He wrote romantic novels and poems such as To John Keats. His works include: The Man From Jericho (1911), A Maid of the Kentucky Hills (1913), Spindrift: Verses and Poems (1915) and The Filled Cup: A Book of Poems for Sarah (1935).