Born in New York and Harvard-educated in Italian studies, Seeger edited the Harvard Monthly in 1906. He had travelled to Paris and settled in his Latin Quarter in 1912, where he enlisted in the Foreign Legion and served in World War I. He was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre and received posthumously the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire. William Archer brought out an edition of his collected poems in 1917, and Scribner's published Seeger's Letters and Diary in the same year (D 640 S 38 Robarts Library). A recent biography is Irving Werstein's Sound no Trumpet: The Life and Death of Alan Seeger (New York: Crowell, 1967; PS 3537 E2629 Robarts Library).