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Born January 6, 1878 • Galesburg • Illinois
Died July 22, 1967 (aged 89) • North Carolina
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Grammy Award (1959)
Notable Works “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vol.” • “Chicago Poems” • “Chicago” • “Remembrance Rock” • “Rootabaga Stories” • “The People, Yes”
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance

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June Jordan.
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Edgar Lee Masters
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Paul Auster
Paul Auster
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Anna Cora Mowatt
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
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Harriet Monroe
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
James Agee
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