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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 .
Author Date Number of languages with source Original language 1 The Bible: See Authorship of the Bible: See Dating the Bible: 3,384 (at least one book) 2,191 (at least New Testament) 698 (Old and New Testaments, including the Protocanonical books) [1] Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek: 2 The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...
Ramón Arroyo (November 15, 1954 – May 7, 2010) was an American playwright, poet and scholar of Puerto Rican descent [1] who wrote numerous books and received many literary awards. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio .
The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century. Note: List of years in poetry exists specifically for poetry. See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world ...
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
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 ...
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.