Poet. Ernest Walsh is most remembered as an expatriate American author; he was a published poet as well as being in journalism with a literary magazine. Although born in Michigan, he lived most of his youth in Cuba, where his father had a wholesale coffee and tea business. After returning to Detroit, his father died. Shortly after his father's death, he left home at the age of fourteen. At the age of seventeen, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, thus spent two years in an exclusive sanitarium in up-state New York. After being discharged, he traveled around the United States doing odd jobs, but did attend writing courses at Columbia University. During World War I, he enlisted in the United States Army in 1917, becoming an air cadet, even though he had a history of respiratory problems. While piloting a plane during a training exercise in Texas, he was injured in a plane crash. Once again, his lungs were damaged, and for the rest of the war, he was in various military hospitals with hemorrhaging lungs, while writing dark poems about his life and illness. In 1921, he had some of his poems published in a poetry magazine in Chicago. Bonding with the editor of the magazine, the editor introduced him to the American poet, Ezra Pound. Since his condition was incurable and related to the military, the editor assisted him in applying for a small military pension. In 1922 he traveled to Paris, France in hope of joining the up-and-coming literary community. When his pension had not been forward to Paris as planned, he became penniless within a short time, sick, and exhausted living in an upscaled hotel room. With his lungs bleeding, he could not write to earn money. Ezra Pound came to his rescue paying his debts. At this point, he was introduced to Ethel Moorhead, a wealthy Scottish poet and artist. More of his poems were being published in the Chicago poetry magazine than in Paris. Returning to the United States in 1924, the style of his poems became lighter. After returning to Paris in 1925, Moorhead became his benefactor, providing the funds for a Paris-based literary magazine, "This Quarter." The magazine would publish original writings of Pound and other authors, such as American author, Ernest Hemingway and Irish novelist, James Joyce. He became romantically involved with the American author, Kay Boyle, who had collaborated with "This Quarter." The first and second editions were successfully published in 1925. Late in 1925, a required medical board examination for his military pension ordered complete bedrest. The couple moved to the Riviera for his health and he became bedridden for three months. His health began to decline, dying of tuberculosis with the complication of pneumonia. According to the document from the American Consular Service in Monaco, his remains were given to his wife, Mrs. Kay Walsh. Five months after his death, Boyle bore him a daughter. The third edition of "This Quarter" was published after his death as a memorial to him. "This Quarter" was suspended from the summer of 1927 to June of 1929, before continuing to be published, although not quarterly, until the last edition in December of 1932. Boyle's 1932 novel "Year Before Last" was a memorial to Walsh. In January of 1934 a collection of his poems was published posthumously by Moorhead, and can be purchased in the 21st century for $60. All the editions of "This Quarter" have been bounded in five volumes and can be found in main libraries around the world. The excellence of his editorship of the literary magazine, "This Quarter," earned him a place in literary history.