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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."
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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 .
Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski, Jacob S Knabb and Rob Funderburk, 2012; The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek, 2004; Chicago Style Novella by R. Felini, 2013 "The Box of Robbers" a fairy tale by Lyman Frank Baum, reprinted in American Fairy Tales by Lyman Frank Baum, English Classical Literature, KAPO ...
Author Born in Chicago Joseph A. Tunzi: Jul 25, 1953: Author, publisher, producer, researcher, archivist, historian; "one of the foremost authorities on Elvis Presley" [105] Born in Chicago Scott Turow: Apr 12, 1949: Author Born in Chicago Irving Wallace: Mar 19, 1916: Jun 29, 1990: Author Born in Chicago Gene Wolfe: May 7, 1931: Apr 14, 2019 ...
Writers from Chicago (3 C, 991 P) Writers from Decatur, Illinois (16 P) ... Pages in category "Writers from Illinois" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
The Chicago State University inaugurated the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1988 with 39 initial inductions. [3] In 1999, the audience "buzzed" when one of the 30 inductees was announced to be Studs Terkel. Professor Haki Madhubuti "pointed out that Studs 'is not part of the black community’s genealogical ...
A "canon" is a list of books considered to be "essential", and it can be published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, Everyman's Library or Penguin Classics), presented as a list with an academic's imprimatur (such as Harold Bloom's [6]), or be the official reading list of a university.