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    Edna Ferber
    American beauty; Come and get it; Fanner Herself...
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    Vachel Lindsay
    Selected poems of Vachel Lindsay; Daniel jazz and other poems; General William Booth Enters into Heaven...
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    William Maxwell
    All the days and nights; The chateau; They came like swallows...
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Rachel Gies

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Gies lives in St. Charles, Illinois.

Biography: Gies came to the US from the Netherlands in 1960 speaking very little English. She is now an author and writes a regular column for the St. Charles Examiner.

Awards:

Rachel Gies on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=rachel+gies

Selected Titles

  Captured pearl /
ISBN: 0970996012 OCLC: 85384503

Fairburn Publishing, St. Charles, IL : ©2004.

One size fits most :
ISBN: 0970996004 OCLC: 47361357

Fairburn Pub., St. Charles, IL : ©2001.

  The darkness within
ISBN: 9780970996022 OCLC: 244189101

Fairburn Publishing, St. Charles, IL : ©2008.

 

 

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