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A second "Chicago Renaissance," this time lasting approximately 1935 to 1950 and referring to a wave of creativity from Chicago's African American writers. Bone suggests that this Chicago Renaissance was comparable in influence and importance to the earlier Harlem Renaissance. Bone's list of Chicago Renaissance writers includes fiction writers ...
[3] But modernism was already stirring by 1899, with works such as Joseph Conrad's (1857–1924) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's (1873–1907) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared even earlier, in 1896. Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger (1890) is a groundbreaking modernist novel and Mysteries (1892) pioneers modernist stream of ...
Pages in category "Writers from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 987 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Writer Born in Chicago Mary Onahan Gallery: Jul 22, 1866: Jan 12, 1941: Writer, editor Larry Gelbart: Feb 25, 1928: Sep 11, 2009: Comedy writer Born in Chicago Miss Major Griffin-Gracy: Oct 25, 1946 Author, activist, community organizer Born in Chicago [92] [93] John Gunther: Aug 30, 1901: May 29, 1970: Writer Gary Gygax: Jul 27, 1938: Mar 4 ...
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Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts.She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which she established in 1912.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.