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    Hamlin Garland
    A member of the third house; Boy life on the prairie; Cavanagh, forest ranger...
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    Ernest Hemingway
    A moveable feast; The sun also rises; Green hills of Africa...
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    Frank Norris
    McTeague; A man's woman; Octopus...
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Cornelia Otis Skinner

Born: 1901 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Cornelia was born in Chicago.

Biography: Cornelia was an actress, monologist and writer.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Cornelia Otis Skinner on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=cornelia+otis+skinner

Selected Titles

Life with Lindsay & Crouse /
ISBN: 0395245117 OCLC: 2332342

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1976.

From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
  Madame Sarah :
ISBN: 3596256690 OCLC: 74961689

Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main : 1988.

  Rose Lindsay :
ISBN: 0908154453 OCLC: 51851717

Odana Editions, Bungendore, Australia : 2001.

 

 

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