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    Donald Culross Peattie
    A natural history of North American trees; A book of hours; Diversions of the field...
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    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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Margaret Ayer Barnes

Born: April 8, 1886, in Chicago, Illinois
Died: October 26, 1967, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Barnes was born in Chicago.

Biography: Margaret Ayer Barnes, was a novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

Awards:
  • ''Years of Grace''
  • -- Pulitzer Prize
  • """Other Awards and Honors"""
  • Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2017

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055693/
Website: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/margaret-ayer-barnes/
Website: https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Barnes__Margaret_Ayer
Website: https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/margaret-ayer-barnes
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ayer_Barnes

Selected Titles

  Years of grace
ISBN: 9780877971795 OCLC: 22307410

Cherokee Pub. Co., Atlanta, Ga. : 1990, ©1958.

 

 

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