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Chicago's early twentieth-century writers and publishers were seen as producing innovative work that broke with the literary traditions of Europe and the Eastern United States. In 1920, the critic H. L. Mencken wrote in a London magazine, The Nation , that Chicago was the "Literary Capital of the United States."
Pages in category "Writers from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 992 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John David Guillory (born 1952) is an American literary critic whose "distinguished career has transformed the ways in which the discipline of literary studies understands itself." [ 1 ] He is the Julius Silver Professor of English [ 2 ] Emeritus [ 3 ] at New York University .
She is the author of six books of fiction and ten books of poetry, including The Turning (2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press. Chernoff's novel American Heaven and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year , were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
A postmodern literary movement srarted ca. 1970, where writers use their speaking voice to present fiction, poetry, monologues, and storytelling arising from Beat poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights movement in the urban centers of the United States. [133]
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Bloom was born in New York City on July 11, 1930, [7] to Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom. He lived in the Bronx at 1410 Grand Concourse. [9] [10] He was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a Yiddish-speaking household, where he learned literary Hebrew; [11] he learned English at the age of six. [12]