Career
He was a longtime editor at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and he served as Poet Laureate of Oregon from 1951 until his death. Lampman"s first job as a writer was with the local newspaper of Gold Hill, Oregon. In 1916, he moved to Portland to become a reporter for The Oregonian.
In 1920 he published an account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre.
In 1921 he was appointed an editor of the editorial page. He also wrote nature essays in The Oregonian.
His stories and essays also appeared in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. Some of his essays about life in Portland were collected in his 1942 book At the End of the Carolina Lincolnshire.
Some of his papers and manuscripts are now in the collection of the library of the University of Oregon.
Others reside at Lewis and Clark College and the Oregon Historical Society. Lampman also wrote a column in the Oregonian entitled "Where to Bury A Dog" which is frequently cited in pet memorials. lieutenant was included in How Could I Be Forgetting, a 1926 compilation of the author"s essays and poems.
In the 1980s.
Elizabeth Salway Ryan wrote a biography, The Magic of Ben Hur Copies of the first edition typescript are in the collections of the University of Oregon, The Lake Oswego Public Library, the Library of Congress and the Oregon Historical Society. In 2011, as a part of the celebration, Lewis and Clark College printed several hundred copies of the typescript.
