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MacLeish was born in 1892, the son of a prosperous [[Chicago]] department store executive, and spent his childhood on a seventeen-acre estate on Lake Michigan.<ref>David Barber, “Archibald MacLeish's Life and Career,” Modern American Poetry</ref> He attended [[Yale University]], where he was a member of Skull & Bones and a classmate of [[Dean Acheson]], with whom he moved on in 1915 to [[Harvard Law School]], where he became a protegé of [[Felix Frankfurter]].

MacLeish was born in 1892, the son of a prosperous [[Chicago]] department store executive, and spent his childhood on a seventeen-acre estate on Lake Michigan.<ref>David Barber, “Archibald MacLeish's Life and Career,” Modern American Poetry</ref> He attended [[Yale University]], where he was a member of Skull & Bones and a classmate of [[Dean Acheson]], with whom he moved on in 1915 to [[Harvard Law School]], where he became a protegé of [[Felix Frankfurter]].

After graduation, MacLeish lectured at Harvard, became an editor at ''The New Republic'' with [[Walter Lippmann]], then joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, which would later employ [[Alger Hiss]]. In 1932, MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poem ''Conquistadors.'' That year, he wrote an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order,”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> which caught Hiss' eye.<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141</ref>

After graduation, MacLeish lectured at Harvard, became an editor at ''The New Republic'' with [[Walter Lippmann]], then joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, which would later employ [[Alger Hiss]].<ref>[http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms002504.html Alger Hiss Collection, 1934-1979], Maryland Historical Society</ref> In 1932, MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poem ''Conquistadors.'' That year, he wrote an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order,”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> which caught Hiss' eye.<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141</ref>

In 1936, MacLeish submitted two articles the [[Communist Party]] organ ''New Masses,'' whose editor was [[Whittaker Chambers]].<ref>MacLeish  “would not have written for that party publication at all unless he shared some of the goals of American communism.” Hilton Kramer, ''[http://books.google.com/books?ei=IuThSpqVFIq6yQSZ89j3Cw&id=yPZ3AAAAMAAJ The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War]'' (Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2000) ISBN 1566632226, p. 262</ref> The next year, he chaired the first open meeting of the Second Congress of the [[Communist front]] [[League of American Writers]],<ref>”[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,758006,00.html Books: Creators' Congress], ''Time'', June 21, 1937</ref> where he introduced Communist Party General Secretary [[Earl Browder]].<ref>Ellen McClay, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SwD5_1nAcbcC In the Presence of Our Enemies]'' (Bloomington, In.: AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420894226, p. 251</ref> The following year, President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed him Librarian of Congress. During [[World War II]], MacLeish served as director of the War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and assistant director of the [[Office of War Information]]<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/47 Archibald MacLeish], Academy of American Poets</ref>(where his subordinates included [[Owen Lattimore]], director of Pacific Operations, and [[Joseph Barnes]], in charge of international broadcasting),<ref>Erik Barnouw, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933 to 1953] (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0195004752, p. 159</ref> then (in 1944) assistant secretary of state for Cultural Affairs.

In 1936, MacLeish submitted two articles the [[Communist Party]] organ ''New Masses,'' whose editor was [[Whittaker Chambers]].<ref>MacLeish  “would not have written for that party publication at all unless he shared some of the goals of American communism.” Hilton Kramer, ''[http://books.google.com/books?ei=IuThSpqVFIq6yQSZ89j3Cw&id=yPZ3AAAAMAAJ The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War]'' (Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2000) ISBN 1566632226, p. 262</ref> The next year, he chaired the first open meeting of the Second Congress of the [[Communist front]] [[League of American Writers]],<ref>”[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,758006,00.html Books: Creators' Congress], ''Time'', June 21, 1937</ref> where he introduced Communist Party General Secretary [[Earl Browder]].<ref>Ellen McClay, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SwD5_1nAcbcC In the Presence of Our Enemies]'' (Bloomington, In.: AuthorHouse, 2006) ISBN 1420894226, p. 251</ref> The following year, President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed him Librarian of Congress. During [[World War II]], MacLeish served as director of the War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and assistant director of the [[Office of War Information]]<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/47 Archibald MacLeish], Academy of American Poets</ref>(where his subordinates included [[Owen Lattimore]], director of Pacific Operations, and [[Joseph Barnes]], in charge of international broadcasting),<ref>Erik Barnouw, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933 to 1953] (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0195004752, p. 159</ref> then (in 1944) assistant secretary of state for Cultural Affairs.