Rod McKuen Autographs
Rodney Marvin McKuen (/məˈkjuːən/ mə-KEW-ən; né Woolever; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen's songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well.
McKuen was born as Rodney Marvin Woolever on April 29, 1933, in a Salvation Army hostel in Oakland, California to Clarice Woolever. Per The New York Times, he had "two birth certificates, each giving conflicting dates and spelling his father's name different ways." He never knew his biological father, who had left his mother. Sexually and physically abused by relatives, raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home. He drifted along the West Coast, supporting himself as a ranch hand, surveyor, railroad worker, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and radio disc jockey, always sending money home to his mother.
At some point, he began using the name "McKuen" as the best approximation of what he thought his father's name was. His mother told him that his father's name was "Mac" McKuen (although she was unsure how it was spelled). At one point later in life, McKuen hired a detective agency to try to locate his father. Per The New York Times, "Whether or not he found his father, at least he (and the detectives) found a man 10 years deceased who satisfies him -- Rodney Marion McKune, a lumberman in Utah, twice married (the last time to a woman 20 years his senior), who at the close of his life was an iceman in Santa Monica, Calif., 20 miles from where McKuen was living. No relative of this McKune remembers him taking a trip from Utah to Oakland that summer of 1932 when the author was conceived, but a Mormon churchman remembers taking a trip there with him in 1931 or 1932."
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The most expensive item with a signature of Rod McKuen (Rod McKuen’s Signed Folio No. 1, 1974-1979) was sold in June 2025 for $960.00 while the cheapest item (Rod McKuen's Book of Days : And a Month of Sundays by Rod McKuen (1980) SIGNED) found a new owner for $0.99 in January 2023. The month with the most items sold (36) was February 2026 with an average selling price of $40.00 for an autographed item of Rod McKuen. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2016 with $272.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was January 2023. In average, an autographed item from Rod McKuen is worth $28.49.
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