This extraordinary biography of noted playwright, Percy, MacKaye, and his wife Marion -- written by their daughter, Arvia, herself an accomplished poet -- provides new insights into the cultural life that shaped the twentieth century. Included in their circle of friends were such writers, artists, inventors, and statesmen as Robert Frost, E. A. Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, Kahlil Gibran, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.The struggles and achievements of their creative search can be instructive and inspiring for us today as we face the conflicts and riddles in our personal and cultural lives.