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Donald Benson Blanding-1894 –1957 was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, and speaker. He was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and trained Art Institute of Chicago. During his high-school years in Lawton, Oklahoma, he is said to have saved the life of a 7 year-old neighbor, Lucille, by picking her up and getting a doctor, when she had jumped off her porch and deeply cut her foot. Cassin eventually took the stage name of Joan Crawford He enlisted and became fascinated by Hawaii, staying for the year. He pursued further art studies in Paris and London, and resumed living in Honolulu in 1921. He happened into two years of writing poems published daily in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. They featured local people and events, and became well-known and popular. The popularity of these ad-poems led Blanding to follow the advice of newspaper colleagues by publishing a collection of his poetry in 1923. When his privately published 2000 copies quickly sold out, he followed it with a commercially published with additional verse and prose books. In 1928, he no longer used a local or West Coast publisher, but the New York publisher. The result was a great commercial success. In 1927, he founded the annual holiday, Lei Day, in Hawaii. While he remained strongly attached to Hawaii, his connections to the world of celebrities drew him often to the mainland, and his income made hotel life and multiple residences feasible Blanding married Dorothy Binney Putnam, a socialite, on 13 June 1940, and they lived in Fort Pierce, Florida. They divorced in June 1947, and he had no descendants.