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    Black Hawk
    Black Hawk; Life of Black Hawk...
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    Jane Addams
    A Belated Industry; A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil; Newer Ideals of Peace...
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    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
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Joan Kufrin

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Kufrin lives in Chicago.

Biography: Joan Kufrin is a playwright and journalist who lives in Chicago with her husband George, a professional photographer. George took the photos that appear in her book, ''Uncommon Women: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Mary McCarthy, Alice Neel, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief, Mary Lou Williams, Eugenia Zukerman''.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: jgkufrin@aol.com
Joan Kufrin on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=joan+kufrin

Selected Titles

  Sięgając gwiazd :
ISBN: 8387014796 OCLC: 749205937

WIG-Press, Warszawa : 2001.

The messenger :
ISBN: 0871298112 OCLC: 39748877

Dramatic Pub., Woodstock, Ill. : ©1997.

Uncommon Women :
ISBN: 0832901091 OCLC: 7597231

Interviews with Maria Tallchief, Eugenia Zukerman, Gwendolyn Brooks, Roberta Peters, Mary McCarthy, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Alice Neel and Mary Lou Williams.

 

 

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