Alan Seeger, American soldier and poet (born 1888)

Alan Seeger

American war poet and soldier (1888–1916)

Alan Seeger was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Elizabeth Seeger, a children's author and educator, and Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and…