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Born January 6, 1878 ā€¢ Galesburg ā€¢ Illinois
Died July 22, 1967 (aged 89) ā€¢ North Carolina
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize ā€¢ Grammy Award (1959)
Notable Works ā€œAbraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vol.ā€ ā€¢ ā€œChicago Poemsā€ ā€¢ ā€œChicagoā€ ā€¢ ā€œRemembrance Rockā€ ā€¢ ā€œRootabaga Storiesā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe People, Yesā€
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance

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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
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June Jordan.
June Jordan
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters
American poet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
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Carolyn Wells
American writer
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Arna Bontemps
American writer
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
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Floyd Dell
American novelist and journalist
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
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James Agee
American author
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet

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