Austin Merrill Moore (1903-1957) was born at Columbia, Tenn., to poet, novelist, and historian John Trotwood Moore. He attained a bachelor's degree in 1924 and a doctorate of medicine in 1928 from Vanderbilt University. As a member of the Fugitive Group with Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and others, he published many poems from 1922 to 1926 in a poetry magazine, The Fugitive, and in Fugitives, An Anthology of Verse in 1928. Over his life, he published more than forty volumes of poetry and wrote between 50,000 and 500,000 sonnets. In 1935 Moore established a private practice in Boston. He also taught neurology at Harvard Medical School and at Boston City Hospital, where he carried out research on alcoholism and drug addiction. During World War II in New Zealand and the South Pacific, Moore volunteered his services to aid soldiers in the U. S. Army.