SOURCE: "Sunny Boy," in Post Biographies of Famous Journalists, edited by John E. Drewry, The University of Georgia Press, 1942, pp. 128-45.

In the following biographical sketch, McEvoy humorously and affectionately draws a portrait of Guest from glances at his life and verse.

It takes a heap o' livin in a house t' make it home, . . .

Who wrote that? Does he believe it? And how does he get that way?

The answer to all these questions is Eddie (Edgar A.) Guest. He wrote it because he is Eddie. He wrote it about home because he hardly ever stirs out of it. He wrote it because he believes it; he believes it because he wrote it.

You'd believe it, too, if it had supported you for years, put your son through college, bought you a $50,000 home, sold 1,000,000 copies and made you that rarest thing in history—a prophet with honor...