# Alfonso Churchill — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Alfonso Churchill in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0231-alfonso-churchill

## Who they are

A painter who dies in poverty, his art unrecognized.

## In the story

### [Alfonso Churchill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/alfonso-churchill)

The speaker and subject of the chapter, reflecting on his life as an astronomer mocked in youth but later honored.

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