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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 L. Frank Baum
    L. Frank Baum
    The Wizard of Oz; A New Wonderland; The Navy Alphabet...
  • Portait of Edna Ferber
    Edna Ferber
    American beauty; Come and get it; Fanner Herself...
  • Portait of Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg
    A patriot's handbook; Chicago Poems; Harvest poems, 1910-1960...
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Authors from Washington

Mike Anderson Martha Bayne Elizabeth Blackwell Michael Burlingame
Homaro Cantu Meg Waite Clayton Ann Darr Louis Desipio
Gioia Diliberto Jonathan R. Eller Daniel Mark Epstein John Michael Gibson
Margaret Peterson Haddix Libby Fischer Hellmann Linea Johnson Carol Koeller
Leslie Levine Ruth Littman Beverly J Obert Elaine L Orr
Harriette Gillem Robinet Mary Ann Rodman Nancy Ross Ryan Richard Sander
Porter Shreve Julia Anne Sweeney Elizabeth Tallent Victoria Thompson
Amy Timberlake Kathy Tucker Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody Dan Walker
Isabel Wilkerson Lauren Yoder Lauren Yoder

 

 

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