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Fourth Floor Frieze

The names of 35 distinguished Illinois authors are etched into the 4th floor frieze of the Illinois State Library Building.

  • Portait of Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry
    A Raisin in the Sun; To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window...
  • Portait of George Ade
    George Ade
    Ade's Fables; In pastures New; Pink Marsh...
  • Portait of Studs Terkel
    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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Authors from Evanston

Barbara Abercrombie John Clarke Adams Joan Wester Anderson Charlene Baldridge
Elizabeth Bates Charles N. Billington Chari Yast Binstadt Gayle Brandeis
Barbara Elizabeth Brown Michael H. Brownstein John Charles Carter Ana Castillo
Coralie Castle Robert Downing Cecil Catherine Chung Linda R. Churchill
Benjamin Nick Colby James C. Curtis Bruce Cutler Sarah Dessen
Susan Freinkel William Greer Thomas Hund Stephanie Izard
Lauren Jankowski Charles Johnson Parneshia Jones Ann Durkin Keating
Louise W. Knight Mary Alice Kruesi Helen Lester William A. Link
Joanie Mackowski Tom E. McGowen Tad Mitchell Francis Daniels Moore
Bill Murray Anne Whitford Paul Richard Powers Phillip Frank Schewe
Maura Stanton Edward Everett Tanner III David Whittingham David M. Young
Paul O. Zelinsky Claire Zulkey Claire Zulkey

 

 

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