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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 .
Children's writer Born in Chicago Allan Cox: Jun 3, 1937: Aug 28, 2016: Writer Residing in Chicago James Gould Cozzens: Aug 19, 1903: Aug 9, 1978: Novelist Born in Chicago Michael Crichton: Oct 23, 1942: Nov 4, 2008: Writer Born in Chicago Philip K. Dick: Dec 16, 1928: Mar 2, 1982: Writer Born in Chicago Charles Dickinson: June 4, 1951: Writer ...
ISBN 0-451-52760-7, on Modern Library's 100 Best Novels Theodore Dreiser The Titan: 1914 Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins: Apollyon: 1998 Upton Sinclair: The Jungle: 1906 ISBN 1-884365-30-2 [6] Veronica Roth: Divergent: 2011 Set in post-apocalyptic Chicago - #1 on the Children's Paperback list in 2012 Veronica Roth Insurgent: 2012 Veronica Roth ...
Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking novel introduces readers to Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana growing up in a close-knit but poor Chicago neighborhood, as she becomes increasingly aware ...
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This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .