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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 Paul Angle
    Paul Angle
    A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years; Bloody Williamson; Philip K. Wrigley...
  • Portait of Jane Addams
    Jane Addams
    A Belated Industry; A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil; Newer Ideals of Peace...
  • Portait of Edna Ferber
    Edna Ferber
    American beauty; Come and get it; Fanner Herself...
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Laurie Kaye Abraham John Irving Ades Ted Allen Caryn Lazar Amster
Sherwood Anderson Paul Angle Judith Arcana Jeff Biggers
Kim Bobo Michael Bracken Carol Brendler Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Ida Chittum Linda Hoff Clement Clarence Darrow Jack Davis
Jennifer Dodwell Hugh Malcom Downs Carolyn Eastwood Brian 'Fox' Ellis
Arlene Erlbach Bergen Evans Kathleen Fitzgerald Cecil S. Giscombe
Ulysses S. Grant Arielle Greenberg Robert Greene Thomas Gregg
Margaret Peterson Haddix Rickey R. Hendon Paul Hornschemeier Tim Jackson
John Jordan Matt Jordan Michael David Kilian John Knoepfle
John Knoerle Riva Lehrer Sara Levine Paula Polk Lillard
James Arthur Lovell Gail Lukasik Andrew H Malcom Robert McChesney
Gene McCormick Adam McOmber David Mendell Nnedi Okorafor
Clarence Page Will Pfeifer Susan Elizabeth Phillips Jeanne Porter
Martha Jean Powers William H. Rentschler Yvette C. Ross-Hebron, MD Richard Salva
Terry Savage Larry Sawyer Jen Schefft Ernest L Schusky
Paul Selby Dennis Shere Jared R.W. Smith Frances Cook Steen
Neil Steinberg Leslie Stella Joan Sweeney James Teitelbaum
Wayne C. Temple Margot Toppen Kathleen Vyn Geoffrey C. Ward
Jasmine Warga Rachel Jamison Webster Rodd Whelpley Edmund White

 

 

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