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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 Nelson Algren
    Nelson Algren
    America Eats; Chicago, City on the Make; Somebody in Boots...
  • Portait of Eliza Farnham
    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
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Authors from Charleston

Andrew H. Bullen Judith Cox Christopher Xenopoulos Janus A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
Nancy Easter Schick Helen Stites Helen Stites

 

 

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